When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio. -Jamais Cascio Knowledge
Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. -Jamais Cascio Intelligence
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio. -Jamais Cascio Space
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements. -Jamais Cascio Environmental
With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles. -Jamais Cascio Environmental
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity. -Jamais Cascio Intelligence
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives. -Jamais Cascio Politics
