Jamais Cascio (@cascio) is a writer, speaker and futurist that focuses on the intersection of emerging technologies, environmental dilemmas, and cultural transformation, specializing in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future – writing mainly on the importance of long-term, systemic thinking, emphasizing the power of openness, transparency and flexibility as catalysts for building a more resilient society at openthefuture.org.
Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a Top 100 Global Thinker, Jamais Cascio specializes in the creation of provocative future scenarios. He explores emerging possibilities in print and in speaking events world-wide, and has appeared in in multiple television and film documentaries. Cascio serves as Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for the Future, and published his first non-fiction book, HACKING THE EARTH, in 2009. He was a featured speaker at the TED 2006 conference, “The Future We Will Create,” in Monterey, California.
“My worst-case scenario is us continuing to have short-term-track thinking.” — Jamais Cascio
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- Why we may be heading towards a 5-6 degree warmer world
- The biggest threats to humanity’s existence
- How technology and humanity intertwine and co-evolve
- Why Jamais is pessimistic in the short term and optimistic in the long term
- Jamais’ thoughts on the cons of geo engineering
- The important but often overlooked drivers climate change
- Why Jamais forecasts rather than predicts the future
- The actual implications of autonomous driving and automation
- Why our political and economic systems are outdated and how to fix this
- Why the future may have a lot more sex and drugs
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