Home / Quotes / Quote by Jason Silva

Quote by Jason Silva

“I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story.”

Quote by Jason Silva

Author

Jason Silva is a television personality recognized for his work in technology and philosophy. Born on February 6, 1982, he has gained attention for his engaging and thought-provoking content, which frequently delves into the intersection of technology, culture, and human potential. Silva's career has been characterized by his talent for communicating complex ideas in an accessible and inspiring way. more

You May Also Like

“We are the naked monkey that went to the moon. People seem to forget that.”

People Seems Forget Moon Naked Monkeys

Author:Jason Silva

“There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our brains because we were going to write everything down and not have to remember anything, and so it would atrophy our brains. So there has always been this human drive on the one hand to create tools, to create technologies to overcome our boundaries, but then there is always this reservation, and this fear that say these technologies are somehow unnatural and it is against nature to partake in them.”

Writing Humans Hands Remember Used Interesting Brain Technology Tools Overcoming Down And Boundaries Unnatural Reservations Atrophy

Author:Jason Silva

“A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the world are now in everyone's hands, then the individuals now have the power that only governments and corporations used to have a couple of decades ago. I get excited by how that increases our capacity to be creative, and how that increases our capacity to create transformative things in the world.”

“I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.”

People Thinking Kind Issues Benefits All Kinds Biology Organs Printing Robotics Replacements Mobility Synthetic

Author:Jason Silva

“It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our tools since stone tools, and since the written word, and what we are seeing now is just a deepening of that. But it has always been the case. We have always done this.”

Has Beens Self Done Cases Written Seeing Tools Stones Species Feedback Innate Loops Written Word

Author:Jason Silva

“The phone is gonna disappear. Maybe it will be a bracelet. After the bracelet it will be a blood cell sized device that maybe gets installed. We already have people with Parkinson's that have chips installed in their brain to control their tremors. We already see people have pacemakers to help their heartbeats. I mean we're already putting these technologies into our bodies. It is only going to deepen.”

People Mean Helping Body Brain Technology Blood Phones Disappear Cells Devices Chips Heartbeat Bracelet Parkinson Parkinson's Blood Cells Pacemakers

Author:Jason Silva

“We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where does the tool begin? It is going to be a really Twilight Zonish situation. It is definitely interesting. Once Google is in a blood cell sized device in our brain, do we become part Google? There are certainly interesting things to think about and provocative questions, but I don't think those provocative questions are going to do anything to slow down the onset of these technologies arriving and becoming even more pervasive.”

Thinking Doe Ends Interesting Brain Situation Technology Blood Becoming Tools Cells Devices Twilight Google Slow Down Interesting Things Provocative Cognition Arriving Blood Cells

Author:Jason Silva

“I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have all of these do it yourself biosynthetic labs where people are going to be playing with the software of life. We are going to have a new generation of artists that are going to be playing with genomes the way that Blake and Byron used to play with poetry. And when genomes are the new canvas for the artist, we might be able to radically upgrade the human species and the software of the biology of the human species.”

“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.”

Thinking Knows Mean Ideas Ancestor Rhetorical Rhetorical Question

Author:Jason Silva

“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.”

Humans Kind Mean Whole Human Beings Space Vision All Kinds Limitation Nerves Technological Time And Space Spectrum Telescopes Microscopes Scaffolding Hubble Hubble Space Telescope

Author:Jason Silva