93 Quotes by Jamais Cascio

To be clear, geoengineering won’t solve global warming. It’s not a ‘techno-fix.’ It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.

Nobody’s going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It’s worth the effort.

A good scenario doesn’t make a good science fiction story – but it’s a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than ‘Project Runway?’

Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal – it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political – but it’s insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

I have to admit it: I’m not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won’t really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information – you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.