Jamais Cascio

Jamais Cascio writes about the intersection of emerging technologies, environmental dilemmas, and cultural transformation, and specializes in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future. His work focuses on the importance of long-term, systemic thinking, and the need for openness, transparency and flexibility as catalysts for building a more resilient society. In 2003, he co-founded WorldChanging.com, the award-winning website dedicated to finding and calling attention to models, tools and ideas for building a "bright green" future. In his time at WorldChanging, Cascio covered topics including urban design, climate science, renewable energy, open source models, emerging technologies, social networks, "leapfrog" global development, and much more. In March, 2006, he started Open the Future as his online home.

Cascio's essays on the environment, technology and social change appear in and are discussed by both online and print publications, including MSNBC and Salon, and have been cited by numerous academic and online writers. Cascio has spoken about future possibilities around the world, at venues including South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, FuturShow3000 in Bologna, Italy, and the TED 2006 conference, "The Future We Will Create," in Monterey, California.

Cascio is the Director of Impacts Analysis for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, and is a fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He has worked in the field of scenario development for over a
decade, and is currently a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future. In 2007, he served as lead author on the Metaverse Roadmap Overview, a cross-industry examination of the next decade's evolution of online technologies.

Cascio has also applied his scenario development skills in the entertainment industry, advising multiple television and film projects, and designing several well-received science fiction game settings, including Transhuman Space: Broken Dreams (speculating on the future of the developing world) and Transhuman Space: Toxic Memes (examining future popular culture and political movements).