We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities. Jason Silva More Quotes by Jason Silva More Quotes From Jason Silva My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up in a household in Venezuela with living, breathing art installations that were the way that she used to express herself, a highly creative environment where ideas were celebrated, where artistic expression was celebrated. Seeing her as somebody who was always able to have a creative output - if she felt sad, she wrote a poem, if she felt happy, she made a sculpture - I think for me, there was an early interest in finding outlets for my passions. Jason Silva mother book art It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change, and I think they're afraid of disruption, and I think they're afraid of the feeling that the rug is being pulled from underneath their feet. People are used to things changing maybe over many generations, but they're not used to seeing things change within their own lifetime. The problem is people are going to college and graduating, and realizing that their major is obsolete. Jason Silva depressing college thinking My background is in like short form digital media, I call myself more of a digital filmmaker than anything else. Jason Silva digital form media I love that you can shoot something on your phone, or shoot something on these small Cannon cameras, and edit it overnight and get it out there the next day and potentially go viral. And that's huge. It really takes the middle-man out. It allows anybody to become a content creator. Jason Silva next-day phones men Imagine something a million times more powerful than your smartphone that is the size of a brain cell interfacing with your biological neurons. That will be the complete symbiosis. That will be when we augment our brains at the level of the neuron. Jason Silva smartphones cells powerful We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the very small, we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve. Jason Silva vision space mean 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. Jason Silva mean ideas thinking 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. Jason Silva technology struggle brain Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us. Jason Silva burn technology fire food iphone therefore I am. Jason Silva therefore am iphone i-am 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. Jason Silva look you architecture beautiful 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. Jason Silva challenge unique people ideas 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. Jason Silva amazing cool universe people 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. Jason Silva day look future stress The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. Jason Silva need future engineers building I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things. Jason Silva well amazing things happy 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. Jason Silva technology together science world Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you. Jason Silva movies you music moments I design therefore I become. Jason Silva therefore become design 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. Jason Silva great me love ideas
