Jason Silva Quotes
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I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
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I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.
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As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.
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Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
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By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.
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I design therefore I become.
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I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
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As long as you're not hurting anybody else, as long as you're being kind to people and you're doing what you love, only good things can come of it.
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I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.
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There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.
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Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy.
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I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding.
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If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.
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We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.
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We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.
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I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.
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A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.
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The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
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Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
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As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.
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iphone therefore I am.
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We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed on the planet. To play jazz with our genomes and the universe might ultimately be what we're all about.
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Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the planet, and soon we won't stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.
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Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation.