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iphone therefore I am.
I design therefore I become.
Awe is the best drug in the world
Everything that we design is designing us back
Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.
If you could download the entire universe in two minutes, would you?
We are the naked monkey that went to the moon. People seem to forget that.
If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.
Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.
We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.
Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.
Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story.
I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.
I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.
My background is in like short form digital media, I call myself more of a digital filmmaker than anything else.
I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.
As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.
We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.
Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
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.
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.
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.
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.
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.
We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even stay within the limitations of biology.
The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a rhetorical question. You know what I mean? We really are as gods.
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.
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.
For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and our brains evolved in a world that was linear and local.
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.
Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.
My approach to creating content is focused on pulling people out of their intellectual comfort zones. I'm interested in presenting ideas in unique ways that challenge people to question their assumptions.
I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.
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.
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.
My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.
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.