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Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.

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Mind, Ecstatic, Biology

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.

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Change, Changes, Linear, Exponential

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.

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Always, Which, Acute, Eureka

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 micro-sphere.

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Small, Very, Kinds, Extend

We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed on the planet. To play jazz with our genomes and the universe might ultimately be what we're all about.

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Play, Reach, Use, Extend

Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.

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Obstacles, Possibilities, Extend

Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation.

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Bad, Rather, Use, Unforeseen

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

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Work, Artist, Role, Considering

Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

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Burn, Cook, Double, Sword

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

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Future, Need, Scientist, Engineers

Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.

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Achieve, How Far, Very, Singularity

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

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Reason, Fact, Been, Bleeds

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

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Fate, Move, Lives, Passive

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.

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Perfect, Through, Breaks, Context

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.

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Love, Always, Been, Narrator

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

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Evidence, Becoming, Willing, Self-Awareness

I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.

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Amazing, Curator, Presenter, Amazing Things

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.

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Amazing, Own, Network, Filter

Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the planet, and soon we won't stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.

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Move Forward, Novelty, Our, Transcend

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.

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Mobility, I Think, Organ, Robotic

My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.

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Idea, Cut, Expanding, Sphere

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

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Fleeting, Always, Advantage, Single Moment

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

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Possibilities, About, Lag

I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding.

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Through, TV, Film School, Semester

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

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Big, Always, Like, Antidote

We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.

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Possibilities, Expanding, Powers

You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.

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Them, Masses, Spirits, Lift

As long as you're not hurting anybody else, as long as you're being kind to people and you're doing what you love, only good things can come of it.

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Love, Doing, Anybody, Good Things

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

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Want, Big, Aesthetic, Sensibilities

I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein.

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Think, I Think, Certainly, Expressed

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