Jamais Cascio Quotes

Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio
American Writer
About Change Internet People Thinking World
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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
The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough. Jamais Cascio
Reality Enough Happening Fast
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
Load more quotes

No more Jamais Cascio quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Jamais Cascio.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025