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Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear. (Jamais Cascio)
I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept. View quote
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Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise. View quote
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Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon. View quote
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Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. View quote
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Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic. View quote
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Nature stopped being natural decades ago. View quote
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It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent. (Jamais Cascio)
As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too. View quote
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The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation. View quote
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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. View quote
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Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming. View quote
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Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?' View quote
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Photo: Jamais Cascio, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Writer
Quotes count: 41