Jamais Cascio

Jamais Cascio 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

Tuesday Topsight, May 13, 2008

The Suburban Question

Pondering Fermi

Remaking the Athlete, Remaking the Culture

Feedback, Tipping Points, and Hard Choices

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Books

Transhuman Space: Broken Dreams by Jamais Cascio (2003)

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Articles

"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

"What’s Next? Making the Future Yours"   Worldchanging  Dec 30, 2006

"The Footprint of a Cheeseburger"   Open the Future  Dec 23, 2006

"Bioprinters vs. the Meatrix"   Open the Future  Dec 14, 2006

"Life and Love in the Uncanny Valley"   Open the Future  Dec 12, 2006

"Nano-Health, Nano-War"   Open the Future  Dec 11, 2006

"Watching The Watchmen Watching Us"   Futurismic  Dec 4, 2006

"Terraforming the Earth Under the Spotlight"   Open the Future  Nov 27, 2006

"Paradoxical Terror"   Open the Future  Nov 22, 2006

"A Life or A Person?"   Open the Future  Nov 20, 2006

"Second Life, Economic Evolution and the CopyBot"   Open the Future  Nov 17, 2006

"The New World, the Rise of the New Culture of Participation"   Open the Future  Nov 15, 2006

"What does it mean to be an “ethical futurist?”"   Futurismic  Nov 6, 2006

"A Post-Hegemonic Future"   Open the Future  Nov 1, 2006

"Participatory Panopticon Draws Ever Closer"   Open The Future  Oct 5, 2006

"The Geoengineering Option"   Futurismic  Oct 1, 2006

"A Last Comment on New Awakenings"   Open The Future  Sep 14, 2006

"New Awakenings"   Open the Future  Sep 12, 2006

"Abundance, Scarcity and Beta-Testing Tomorrow"   Open The Future  Sep 12, 2006

"(Virtual) Weapon Smuggling"   Open the Future  Sep 6, 2006

"Opening The Awareness Window"   Futurismic  Sep 5, 2006

"Future of the Future"   Open The Future  Aug 23, 2006

"A Gadget-free Futurism"   Futurismic  Aug 6, 2006

"Nature as an Information Economy"   Open The Future  Jul 28, 2006

"Monday Topsight, July 24, 2006"   Open The Future  Jul 24, 2006

"Radical Religion"   Open the Future  Jul 18, 2006

"Tomorrow Makers"   Open the Future  Jul 12, 2006

"The Unspoken Word"   Open the Future  Jul 11, 2006

"Focusing on Energy and the Participatory Panopticon"   Open the Future  Jul 11, 2006

"Twelve Things Journalists Need To Know to be Good Futurist/Foresight Reporters"   Open The Future  Jun 14, 2006

"Sustainable Cities"   Open The Future  Jun 1, 2006

"Futurist Matrix Revisited (Again)"   Open The Future  May 31, 2006

"What’s Your Future?"   Open the Future  May 23, 2006

"Metaverse Roadmap"   Open the Future  Apr 20, 2006

"The Open Future: Open Source Scenario Planning"   Worldchanging  Mar 27, 2006

"Nature on the Future of Computing"   WorldChanging  Mar 24, 2006

"The Open Future: Living in Multiple Worlds"   Worldchanging  Mar 20, 2006

"Nanotech Neural Surgery"   Worldchanging  Mar 16, 2006

"The Open Future: The Reversibility Principle"   WorldChanging  Mar 10, 2006

"The Open Future: Spirits in a material world"   WorldChanging  Feb 27, 2006

"The Open Future"   WorldChanging  Feb 20, 2006

"Abrupt climate change - how bad could it be?"   Worldchanging  Jan 10, 2006

"Neural Interfaces"   WorldChanging  Dec 21, 2005

"The Synaptic Leap"   Worldchanging  Dec 16, 2005

"Learning Ethics from Science Fiction"   Worldchanging  Dec 5, 2005

"The Greening of China"   Worldchanging  Nov 12, 2005