Jamais Cascio

Jamais Cascio is a Senior Fellow of the IEET. He writes about the intersection of emerging technologies and cultural transformation, and specializes in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future. His work focuses on the relationships between disparate forces and systems, and the importance of long-term, systemic thinking, particularly regarding the environment and technological development. In 2003, he co-founded WorldChanging.com, the award-winning website dedicated to finding and calling attention to models, tools and ideas for building a “bright green” future. His articles at WorldChanging covered topics including energy and the environment, global development, open source technologies, and catalysts for social change.

Cascio speaks about future scenarios around the world at venues such as the FuturShow 3000 in Bologna, Italy, and the TED 2006 conference in Monterey, California. His essays about technology and society have appeared in a variety of publications, including Wired, Salon and Time. Cascio has worked on a number of television and film projects, and designed the science fiction game settings Transhuman Space: Broken Dreams and Transhuman Space: Toxic Memes, exploring explore issues of posthumanity, intellectual property, sapient AI, nanotechnology, and bioengineering. Jamais has degrees in Anthropology, History and Political Science.

Home Page: http://www.openthefuture.com

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Blogs

Open The Future

re•making tomorrow

Your Brain Hates You

Sydneyside

Worry. Be Happy.

#cleanse

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Books

Hacking the Earth by Jamais Cascio (2009)

Transhuman Space: Broken Dreams by Jamais Cascio (2003)

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Articles

"Hacking the Earth"   The Futurist  Jun 29, 2009

"The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution"   Fast Company  Jun 20, 2009

"Get Smarter"   The Atlantic Monthly  Jun 19, 2009

"It’s Time to Cool the Planet"   Wall Street Journal  Jun 15, 2009

"The Transparency Dilemma"   Fast Company  May 28, 2009

"Should Creative Workers Use Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs?"   Fast Company  May 8, 2009

"The Next Big Thing: Resilience"   Foreign Policy  Apr 21, 2009

"Social Networking and the Brain: Continuous Partial Empathy?"   Fast Company  Apr 18, 2009

"Machine Ethics"   Fast Company  Apr 9, 2009

"Toy Hacks, Starships and Pumas"   Open The Future  Apr 9, 2009

"Resilience in the Face of Crisis: Why the Future will be Flexible"   Fast Company  Apr 3, 2009

"One Model for a New World Economy"   Open The Future  Mar 31, 2009

"The New World"   Open The Future  Mar 30, 2009

"When ‘Mad Men’ Meets Augmented Reality"   Fast Company  Mar 25, 2009

"Geoengineering: New Problems, Old Politics"   Open The Future  Mar 19, 2009

"Geoengineering’s Drawbacks"   Open The Future  Mar 16, 2009

"Participatory Panopticon’s Bumpy Road"   Ethical Technology  Mar 16, 2009

"Geoengineering Earth, Mars and the Galaxy"   Open The Future  Mar 10, 2009

"The End of Long-Term Thinking"   Open The Future  Mar 7, 2009

"John Henry was an Audiobook-Readin’ Man"   Open The Future  Feb 28, 2009

"Scaffolding, Redux"   Open The Future  Feb 24, 2009

"Flunking Out"   Open the Future  Feb 6, 2009

"New Geoengineering Study: Can We Fix the Planet?"   Open The Future  Jan 28, 2009

"Boosting Your Brain for Fun and Profit"   Open The Future  Jan 24, 2009

"Cloud computing: Threat or Menace?"   Open The Future  Jan 19, 2009

"Aspirational Futurism, Uncertainty and Resilience"   Open The Future  Jan 3, 2009

"Cycles of History"   Open the Future  Dec 19, 2008

"Value Ecologies"   Open the Future  Dec 16, 2008

"Nanopolitics"   Open the Future  Dec 12, 2008

"Legacy Futures"   Open The Future  Dec 9, 2008

"Global Climate and Global Power"   Open The Future  Dec 5, 2008

"Resilience and the Next Disaster"   Open the Future  Oct 16, 2008

"All distant problems are not created equally"   Open the Future  Oct 7, 2008

"Tomorrow Matters"   Open the Future  Sep 23, 2008

"Massively-Multiplayer Decepticon"   Open the Future  Sep 17, 2008

"This Changes Everything"   Open the Future  Sep 12, 2008

"Making the Visible Invisible"   Open the Future  Aug 19, 2008

"Wakefulness, Storms and Urban Agriculture"   Open the Future  Jul 24, 2008

"The Big Picture: Collapse, Transcendence, or Muddling Through"   Open the Future  Jul 15, 2008

"Singular Sensations"   Open the Future  Jul 5, 2008

"Singularities Enough, and Time"   Open the Future  Jun 30, 2008

"The Griefer Future"   Open the Future  Jun 27, 2008

"SimFuture(s)"   Open the Future  Jun 1, 2008

"Who Decides the Ideal Climate?"   Open the Future  May 28, 2008

"How Many Earths?"   Open the Future  May 19, 2008

"Pondering Fermi"   Open the Future  May 6, 2008

"Remaking the Athlete, Remaking the Culture"   Open the Future  May 2, 2008

"Feedback, Tipping Points, and Hard Choices"   Open the Future  Apr 29, 2008

"The Earth Will Be Just Fine, Thank You"   Open the Future  Apr 23, 2008

"Roll +3 vs the Future"   Open the Future  Apr 20, 2008

"The Big Picture: Resource Collapse"   Open the Future  Apr 8, 2008

"Peak Oil vs. Global Warming"   Open the Future  Mar 25, 2008

"Super-Empowered Hopeful Individuals"   Nanotechnology Now  Mar 24, 2008

"It’s the Business of the Future to be Dangerous"   Open the Future  Mar 18, 2008

"The Renewable Proliferation Treaty"   Open the Future  Feb 17, 2008

"The Big Picture: Climate Chaos"   Open the Future  Feb 4, 2008

"The Big Future"   Open the Future  Jan 31, 2008

"Battlefield Earth"   Foreign Policy  Jan 29, 2008

"“Techno-Doping” and the New Olympics"   Open the Future  Jan 14, 2008

"Malware for Materials"   Open the Future  Dec 30, 2007

"Prototyping the Participatory Panopticon"   Open the Future  Dec 19, 2007

"Green Tomorrows: the Scenarios"   Open the Future  Nov 25, 2007

"I Spy With My Orbital Eye…"   Open the Future  Nov 17, 2007

"The Second Uncanny Valley"   Open the Future  Oct 28, 2007

"The Politics of Geoengineering"   Open the Future  Oct 26, 2007

"Solving the Climate Crisis"   Open the Future  Oct 14, 2007

"Paper Batteries, 200mpg Cars, and Biobricks"   Open the Future  Oct 10, 2007

"Could universal health insurance be an engine for entrepreneurial innovation?"   Open the Future  Sep 25, 2007

"Futurism as Civilizational Therapy"   Open the Future  Sep 17, 2007

"The Metaverse and an Open Source Singularity"   Open the Future  Sep 9, 2007

"Econo-brain, Chip Fabs and CyberWar"   Open the Future  Aug 12, 2007

"Technology as Political Catalyst"   Open the Future  Jul 18, 2007

"An Insufficient Present"   Open the Future  Jul 1, 2007

"Metaverse Roadmap Report"   Open the Future  Jun 27, 2007

"F in Citizenship"   Open the Future  Jun 23, 2007

"Long-Term Deposits"   Open the Future  Jun 18, 2007

"The Accidental Cyborg"   Open the Future  Jun 13, 2007

"SimCanada, Googlopticon and the Singularity"   Open the Future  Jun 6, 2007

"The Surface of the Metaverse"   Open the Future  May 30, 2007

"Open Source with a Bullet: John Robb’s Brave New War"   Open the Future  May 14, 2007

"The End of Conventional War"   Open the Future  May 6, 2007

"The Early Signs of the Long Tomorrow"   Open the Future  Apr 25, 2007

"One Revolution Per Child"   Open the Future  Apr 16, 2007

"Augmented Fluid Intelligence"   Open the Future  Apr 1, 2007

"Geoengineering and the Future of Desktop Fab"   Open the Future  Mar 30, 2007

"Rehearsing the Future"   Open the Future  Mar 28, 2007

"Mapping the Present, Seeing the Future"   Open the Future  Mar 23, 2007

"Information, Context and Change"   Open the Future  Mar 18, 2007

"Obsolescent Heresies"   Open the Future  Mar 1, 2007

"The Resilient World"   Open The Future  Feb 25, 2007

"Retroprobium, low-energy websites, and home WIFi security"   Open the Future  Feb 23, 2007

"Open Source Terraforming"   Open the Future  Feb 16, 2007

"Good Ancestors… But Who Are Our Descendants?"   Open the Future  Feb 8, 2007

"Things That Make Me Happy"   Open the Future  Feb 7, 2007

"GRM Warfare"   Open the Future  Jan 28, 2007

"Apocaphilia"   Open the Future  Jan 25, 2007

"Beauty and the Beast"   Open the Future  Jan 11, 2007

"Updating Geoethics"   Open the Future  Jan 7, 2007

"RoboFactory"   Open the Future  Jan 5, 2007

"An Eschatological Taxonomy"   Open the Future  Jan 1, 2007