19 Facts About Jason Silva

Jason Luis Silva Mishkin was born on February 6,1982 and is a Venezuelan-American television personality, short filmmaker, futurist, and public speaker.

Jason Silva is known for hosting the National Geographic documentaries Brain Games and Origins.

Jason Silva has stated that his goal is to use technology to excite people about philosophy and science.

Jason Silva writes and produces short films, is a former presenter on Current TV, and lectures internationally on such topics as creativity, spirituality, technology, and humanity.

Jason Silva was born on February 6,1982 in Caracas, Venezuela.

Jason Silva is brother to Jordan Silva and Paulina Silva.

Jason Silva earned a degree in film and philosophy from the University of Miami.

Jason Silva is television personality, filmmaker, futurist, and public speaker; he uses television, online media, and lecture halls to share his perspectives.

Jason Silva has spoken at Google, The Economist Ideas Festival, the DLD Digital Life Design Conference in Munich, TEDGlobal, the Singularity Summit, the PSFK Conference, and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

At TEDGlobal in June 2012, Jason Silva premiered a short video entitled "Radical Openness".

In September 2012, Jason Silva presented his Radical Openness videos at the opening keynote at Microsoft TechEd Australia.

From 2005 to 2011, Jason Silva was a presenter and producer on Al Gore's cable network Current TV.

Jason Silva has appeared as a guest on Season 2 of StarTalk.

In May 2013, Jason Silva began "Shots of Awe", a YouTube channel on the Discovery Digital Networks TestTube, presenting weekly "micro-documentaries" on creativity, innovation, exponential technology, futurism, metaphysics, existentialism and the human condition.

In October 2013, Jason Silva appeared on YouTube for Google and NASA's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Jason Silva has appeared multiple times as a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

Jason Silva has been featured in The Atlantic, The Economist, Vanity Fair, Forbes, Wired, and many others.

In 2014, Jason Silva was an advisor for National Geographic Channel's Expedition Granted competition in which finalists are chosen based on their project's originality, viability and potential impact on either the local or global community.

Jason Silva has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.