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Jason Silva
Jason Silva
American Director
Born: Feb 6, 1982
About Always Me People Technology You
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us. Jason Silva
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Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical. Jason Silva
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Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is. Jason Silva
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For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment. Jason Silva
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iphone therefore I am. Jason Silva
Am iPhone Therefore
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building. Jason Silva
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I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff. Jason Silva
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We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system. Jason Silva
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As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create. Jason Silva
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We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere. Jason Silva
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I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things. Jason Silva
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There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity. Jason Silva
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I design therefore I become. Jason Silva
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There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them. Jason Silva
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I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth. Jason Silva
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Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy. Jason Silva
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As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work. Jason Silva
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Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles. Jason Silva
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Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation. Jason Silva
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A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true. Jason Silva
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By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other. Jason Silva
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I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein. Jason Silva
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Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve. Jason Silva
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I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder. Jason Silva
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