Jamais Cascio Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.”

“Neodymium is one of 17 'rare-earth metals,' and these elements have turned out to be critical to the rapidly-growing green technology industries.”

“Nature stopped being natural decades ago.”

“Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.”

“The Internet is not kind to established institutions.”

“The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough.”

“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.”

“The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.”

“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.”

“I do think that fashion may end up being the 'killer app' for wearable augmented reality systems. This is in part because it's not simply task-oriented - like finding a restaurant or where your friend is currently lounging about - but experience-oriented. It becomes part of your life.”