Jamais Cascio Quotes - Page 2

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• Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

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  Should Have, Environmental, Degrees

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• Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

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  Needs, Decrease, Increase

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• Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

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  Focus And Concentration, Creative, Drug

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• The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.

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  Book, Giving, Fiction

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• Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

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  Faces, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouses

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

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  Hard Work, Thinking, Practice

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• 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?

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  Mean, Goal, Political

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

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  Clouds, Fans, Cloud Computing

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• Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

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  Cat, Brain, Able

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• As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.

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  Gains, Awareness, Form

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• It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

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  Atmosphere, Accepted, Rough

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• Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

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  Example, Action, Natural

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• Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

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  Natural, Being Natural, Decades

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• Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

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  Communication, Messages, Method

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• Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.

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  Cutting, Clouds, Data

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• Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.

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  Real, Encounters, Body

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• Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

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  Exercise, Covering, Use

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• As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

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  Real, Book, Website

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• But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we can't wait until the worst effects are upon us to make a decision -- by then, it would be far, far too late. The scenario we may be faced with is one where doing something for the wrong reasons, run by the wrong people, may still save more lives than holding out for a more appealing option.

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  Running, People, Decision

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• 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.

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  Gathering, Development, Might

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