Jason Silva is the Emmy-nominated host of National Geographic Channel\u2019s #1 rated and Emmy-nominated series,\u00a0Brain Games,<\/i>\u00a0seen in over 100 countries. He will next be seen as the host of the eight-part National Geographic series,\u00a0Origins: The Journey of Humankind<\/i>, premiering March 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cA Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age\u201d was how\u00a0The Atlantic<\/i>\u00a0described television personality, filmmaker and philosopher Silva, who has also been described as \u201cpart Timothy Leary, part Ray Kurzweil, and part Neo from \u2018The Matrix.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
A self-professed wonderjunkie, Silva is the creator of the web series \u201cShots of Awe,\u201d micro-documentaries exploring creativity, innovation, disruptive technology, futurism, metaphysics, existentialism and the human condition. In short: Philosophy, Science and Art for the YouTube generation. The videos, which \u201cplay like movie trailers for ideas,\u201d according to\u00a0The Atlantic,<\/i>\u00a0have spread like wildfire across the internet and have been viewed more than 13 million times. Influencers such as Ron Howard, Richard Branson, Leo Dicaprio, Tribeca Films Co-founder Jane Rosenthal, actor Mark Ruffalo, NASA, and many others have tweeted Jason\u2019s videos.<\/p>\n
Jason also created the web series \u201cFuture of Us\u201d for AOL, exploring exponential technology and the future of humanity.<\/p>\n
The Imaginary Foundation wrote of Silva, \u201clike some kind of Ontological DJ, he recompiles the source code of western philosophy by mixing and mashing it up into a form of recombinant creativity, which elevates understanding from the dry and prosaic, to a sensual cognitive romance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Others have described Silva as \u201ca modern performance philosopher, a Digital DJ, a re-vitalizer and remixer of optimism, and above all, a curator: of ideas, of inspiration, and of awe\u2026like a trumpet player or modern-day digital Mingus, he jams, riffs and rhapsodizes through a tumbling thicket of ideas with such a sharp and vital alacrity that it can take the breath away.\u201d<\/p>\n
An active and prolific global speaker, Jason has spoken at TEDGlobal, Google\u2019s Zeitgeist Conference, keynoted multiple events for Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, Oracle, Electronic Arts, Honeywell, PEPSICO, Intel, Dolby and many more, all over the world.<\/p>\n
He was also keynoted at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Sydney Opera house, The Economist Ideas Festival, The DLD Conference, The Singularity Summit, the PSFK Conference, Mexico\u2019s Ciudad De Las Ideas, Seattle\u2019s Interactive Conference, Chicago Ideas Week, the main stage at SXSW Interactive and the MainStage at CANNES LIONS festival of Creativity.<\/p>\n
From 2005 to 2011, Venezuela-born Silva was a presenter on Current TV, the Emmy-winning, independent cable network started by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, where he hosted, wrote and produced more than 100 hours of original content. He left the network to become, according to\u00a0The Atlantic,<\/i>\u00a0\u201ca part-time filmmaker and full-time walking, talking TEDTalk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16097,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"members-type":[857],"class_list":["post-16096","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","members-type-speakers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n