Shots of Awe
Jason Silva hosts Shots of Awe, a short documentary series that condenses some of humanity’s most difficult scientific endeavors into entertaining and exciting videos that can be understood by a layman.
Silva aims to inspire and captivate those unfamiliar with the subject matter he presents through his palpable passion for it, and each episode of Shots gives you a sense of what people can and will achieve in the years to come Inspired and hopeful by the achievements. Hera are some of the more interesting and insightful episodes, and a little bit about them:
Exploring Space: Cosmic Revolutionaries: What will our space travel activities be used for? What benefits and advancements will develop organically as space travel becomes routine?
Technium: Attempts to dispel the notion that technology is unnatural, arguing that everything born of humans is naturally born because humans are naturally born.
Designing our own divinity: The buildings and spaces we build create a feedback loop that affects our lives, giving us direct control over the world and the lives we experience.
Digital Shaman: A book course written by brilliant minds with texts designed to transcend the boundaries of the reality most people think we live in.
Psychedelic Technology: An inventor’s first idea that leads to the invention of a previously uncreated technology that is actually hallucinatory – an idea that has nothing to do with current reality.
Existential Bummer: Our most extreme feelings of happiness and love are often tinged with a tinge of sadness, Silva suspects, because we understand the ephemeral nature of all living things, we and all we love are mortal.
Artificial Intelligence: Fears that machines will wipe us out, its creators, are unfounded. AI is simply an extension of intelligence beyond the limits of physics, which we are.
We’re on the right track: Despite dark and somber theories about the catastrophic state of society today, the hard data shows that humanity is thriving like never before – and across the globe, one person dies at the hands of another The odds of benchmarking, for example, are the lowest they’ve ever been.
