Jamais Cascio

Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and ethical futurist.

In the 1990s, Cascio worked for the futurist and scenario planning firm Global Business Network. In 2003, he co-founded the popular environmental website Worldchanging, where he was a primary contributor.

At Worldchanging, he covered a broad variety of topics, from energy and climate change to global development, open source, and bio- and nanotechnologies. In early 2006, he left Worldchanging, and now blogs at Open The Future, a title based on his WorldChanging.com essay, 'The Open Future'.

He currently serves as the Global Futures Strategist for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, is a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and is a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future.

Cascio is also known as a speculative futurist, having written two books for the GURPS science fiction role-playing game series "Transhuman Space", Broken Dreams (2002) and Toxic Memes (2003).

Cascio's work could be classified as techno-progressive. He speaks and writes frequently on the use of future studies as a tool for anticipating and managing environmental and technological crises. In 2006, he spoke at the TED conference.

See also

• Participatory panopticon

References

• Jamais Cascio bio at the Institute for the Future
• Jamais Cascio bio at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
• Interview with Jamais Cascio by R.U. Sirius in Neofiles
• Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth

External links

• Open The Future
• The Worldchanging Site
• Jamais Cascio bio on Worldchanging
• Talk by Jamais Cascio at 2005 Meshforum
• Talk at Accelerating Change 2005 Conference
• Jamais Cascio on the Carbon Footprint of the American Cheeseburger (Audio) - Interview of Jamais Cascio by TreeHugger Radio
• Ethical Futurism at Futurismic
• Carbon Footprint of a Cheeseburger on KQED Radio
• Interview with Jamais Cascio at BBC WorldService (Real Audio file)