Jason Silva

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

A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago.

Jason Silva

As a media artist and filmmaker, I’m constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

Jason Silva

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

Jason Silva

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

Jason Silva

I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.

Jason Silva

I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don’t realize how fast the future is coming.

Jason Silva

I do not accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I’m going to extend it forever! Or at least I’m going to try.

Jason Silva

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

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Jason Silva