5. Jamais Cascio on Forecasting Future, Climate Change and Geoengineering and the Biggest Threats to Human Civilization
Summary: Jamais Cascio (<a style="" href="https://twitter.com/cascio">@cascio</a>) 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 <a href="http://openthefuture.org">openthefuture.org</a>.<br> 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.<br> “My worst-case scenario is us continuing to have short-term-track thinking.” — Jamais Cascio<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://fringe.fm/itunestextlink">You can listen right here on iTunes</a><br> In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:<br> <br> * Why we may be heading towards a 5-6 degree warmer world<br> * The biggest threats to humanity’s existence<br> * How technology and humanity intertwine and co-evolve<br> * Why Jamais is pessimistic in the short term and optimistic in the long term<br> * Jamais’ thoughts on the cons of geo engineering<br> * The important but often overlooked drivers climate change<br> * Why Jamais forecasts rather than predicts the future<br> * The actual implications of autonomous driving and automation<br> * Why our political and economic systems are outdated and how to fix this<br> * Why the future may have a lot more sex and drugs<br> <br> NOTE: A couple times Jamais references terms/concepts which popularly used yet politically charged like pink-collar jobs. He is in no way endorsing or a fan of gender-roles/stereotypes but just observing them in action.<br> Recommended Books<br> <br> * <a href="https://amzn.to/2sD6zxE">The Culture Series: Book 1 – Consider Phlebas</a><br> * <a href="https://amzn.to/2xRaVpZ">Transmetropolitan, Vol 1: Back on the Street</a><a style="" href="http://fringe.fm/itunes"> </a><br> <br> <a href="http://fringe.fm/itunes"></a><br> <a href="http://fringe.fm/stitcher"></a><br> —<br> Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM<br> <br> FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on <a href="http://fringe.fm/donate">Patreon,</a> via <a href="https://fringe.fm/paypal">Paypal</a> or with <a href="https://fringe.fm/donorbox">DonorBox powered by Stripe</a>.<br> <br> <br>
