Scott Jackisch
Scott Jackisch runs
The Oakland Futurist blog and is owner of
Globalize Networks.
Scott lives in Oakland, CA with his girlfriend of many years, Gretchen.
He
grew up outside of Buffalo, NY, and also lived briefly in New Orleans,
LA. He has worked with computers since 1999 and is currently exploring
a new avocation as a writer.
His interest in futurism started early in his youth as he read the
science
fiction of authors like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. Later, he
admired the work of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. He is still a
big sci-fi fan and Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross, and Daniel Suarez
are some of his favorite contemporary authors.
Scott got into cognitive science after attending
Monica Anderson’s AI
Meetup, and then Dana Ream’s Cognitive Science Reading Group. He is
very
interested in enactivism and embodied cognition. He is an active
Meetup.com participant and hosts his own
Futurist Meetup. Some other
groups he is a part of are
Quantified Self and the
Long Now.
He has also
done a lot of work with startups and is interested in the Silicon Valley
entrepreneurial scene.
Read
Extreme Futurist Festival — Grinders, the Practical
Transhumanists,
Utopia Sucks,
Writing to Create a “Good Future”,
Some Will Be Living Forever (2033 Immortality Fiction
Contestant), and
Review of Jaron Lanier’s “Who Owns the Future” — or how to
extrapolate
from false premises.
Read his
LinkedIn profile.
Follow his
Twitter feed.
