Jamais Cascio
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| Alma mater | University of California |
| Period | - 1988 |
| Subjects | anthropology, history |
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Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based author and futurist.
Cascio graduated in 1988 from the University of California, majoring in anthropology and history.
Cascio was Technology Manager at Global Business Network and Director of Impacts Analysis for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology.
In 2009, Cascio was listed as one of Foreign Policy Magazine's top 100 Global Thinkers.Michio Kaku has called him "a leading futurist with a long career of thoughtfully contemplating the outlines of tomorrow.". He has written articles for various publications on a variety of subjects, including the future of human evolution, education in the information age, and emergent technologies.
As of 2016 he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a research Fellow at the Institute for the Future, and a member of the Ensia Advisory Council.
Cascio was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of his life's work by the University of Advancing Technology in May, 2017.
In the period 2003-4, Cascio published two volumes of background material for use in Steve Jackson Games' role playing game Transhuman Space, which is set in 2100.
Cascio's first volume, Broken Dreams, provides a political backdrop that concentrates on the less fortunate, and how they might respond to their circumstances.
The second volume, Toxic Memes, concentrates on the battle for public opinion, and the issues that might arise from a hypothetical new science of memetics: the analysis, engineering, and manipulation of ideas.
In 2003, Cascio co-founded the online website Worldchanging with Alex Steffen. He contributed articles from 2003 until his departure in 2006. His range of topics covered energy, climate change, global development, open source, biotechnology, and nanotechnologies.
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