A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
In fact, one reason I am interested in developing things in virtual reality is that they're so fascinating. I can come up… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs,… — 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
People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than… — 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
Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour,… — 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
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
In the Sixties, the hippies said "Make love, not war," and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people… As long as we remember that we ourselves are… — 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
Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told… — 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
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