I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Some of the fantasy objects arising from cybernetic totalism (like the noosphere, which is a supposed global brain formed by the sum… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote.… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
“There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within the human… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
“Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience… If there are… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
![“The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans…” quote by Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3bf/jaron-lanier-2241_artificial_the-upheavals-of-artificial-intelligence_2774070.jpg)
