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Jamais Cascio
American
Writer
About
Change
Internet
People
Thinking
World
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Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.
Jamais Cascio
Survival
Overcome
Thrive
Able
About
Goal
Unexpected
Being
Sustainability
Resilience
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
Jamais Cascio
Great
Stress
Strategy
Adaptive
Out
Critical
Foresight
Times
Turns
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.
Jamais Cascio
Best
Our
Approximation
Complex
Complex System
System
Pretty
Atmosphere
Models
Notion
Rough
Ridiculously
Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.
Jamais Cascio
Work
Hard Work
You
Worth
Better
Practice
Thinking
Futures
Effort
Get
Fortunately
Hard
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
Jamais Cascio
Water
Wind
Dams
Changing
Our
Earth
Deforestation
Has-Been
Civilization
Detriment
Environment
Droughts
Alter
Occasionally
Been
Often
Human
Human Civilization
Patterns
Creating
Cycles
Even
Deserts
Millennia
Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldn't even consider doing.
Jamais Cascio
Problem
Better
Strategy
Consider
Bit
Finding
Winning
Doing
Trying
Going
Little
Little Bit
Your
Even
Basically
Competitors
Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.
Jamais Cascio
Face
Out
Putting
Still
Were
Decades
Greenhouse
Greenhouse Gases
Stop
Warming
Even
Now
Right
Gases
Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.
Jamais Cascio
Health
Accident
Greed
Harmful
System
Threatened
Something
Results
Absorb
Overall
Without
Truly
Malice
May
Being
Resilient
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.
Jamais Cascio
Animals
Other
Our
Significant
Devote
Dealing
Brain
Human
Just
Interactions
Human Beings
Social
Beings
Portion
Humans
Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.
Jamais Cascio
Remember
Will
Picture
Thinking
Possible
Futures
Structured
Come
Goal
Up
Inform
Decisions
Help
Strategic
Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.
Jamais Cascio
Future
Wind
About
Like
Forecasting
Testing
Tunnel
Strategies
With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles.
Jamais Cascio
Environmental
Business
Design
Increasing
Our
Indeed
Sphere
Complex
Those
Has-Been
Systems
About
Lifestyles
Shaped
Since
Concerned
Scientists
Been
Debates
Fervor
Sustainability
Inhabit
Activists
Fragile
Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.
Jamais Cascio
Change
Systems
Environment
Involves
Making
Intentional
Order
Large-Scale
Humans
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.
Jamais Cascio
Unforeseen
Consequences
Would
Would-Be
Solve
Risky
Troubling
Lead
Clear
Almost
Global
Global Warming
Warming
Certainly
Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.
Jamais Cascio
Walls
Internet
Control
Down
Secrecy
Knock
Shatter
Vulnerable
Being
Means
Connected
Actions
Mechanisms
Coordinated
The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.
Jamais Cascio
History
Change
World
Political
Internet
Important
Become
Revolution
World Wide Web
Tool
Back
Destined
Web
Arguing
Writers
New
Days
Most
Force
Important Tool
Were
Cultural
New One
Human
The Most Important
Social
Far
Human History
Notion
Wide
Early
Early 1990s
Early Days
Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.
Jamais Cascio
Internet
Own
Control
Ability
Put
Simply
Institution
Narrative
In the U.S., we are free to speak our minds and to spend money without being forced to reveal our identities - except when using the Web. Browsing the Web leaves digital tracks everywhere in the form of log files, and anyone who hosts a Web site can be easily traced.
Jamais Cascio
Speak
Money
Digital
Free
Our
Spend
Minds
Everywhere
Easily
Log
Web
Web Site
Except
Hosts
Identities
Forced
Tracks
Without
Reveal
Leaves
Site
Being
Anyone
Form
Who
Using
Files
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
Jamais Cascio
Intelligence
Increases
Complexity
Participatory
Specialization
Need
Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'
Jamais Cascio
Reality
Space
Digital
Physical
Blended
Call
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.
Jamais Cascio
Freedom
History
Technology
World
Broad
Could
Take
Until
Limited
Off
Offers
Really
Use
Play
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.
Jamais Cascio
Creative
Creative Process
Mind
Focus
Important
Increase
Part
Concentration
Important Part
Very
Often
Wander
Process
Your
Many
Enhancement
Letting
Serve
Cognitive
Nature stopped being natural decades ago.
Jamais Cascio
Nature
Natural
Decades
Stopped
Being
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.
Jamais Cascio
Politics
Key
Everyday
Everyday Lives
Our
Complexity
Participatory
Economies
Well
May
Century
Lives
As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.
Jamais Cascio
Value
Websites
Too
Books
Journals
Real
Real Value
Useful
You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written - assume that the information in the book is at least a year older than the copyright date, and possibly two.
Jamais Cascio
You
Book
Year
Older
Assume
Recognize
Out
Possibly
Date
Written
Least
Came
Reflects
Than
Information
Copyright
Two
Need
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