Jaron Lanier

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

— Jaron Lanier

“If someone reuses your video snippet, and that person’s work incorporating yours is reused by yet a third party, you still get…

— Jaron Lanier

“we have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.”

— Jaron Lanier

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been…

— Jaron Lanier

We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's…

— Jaron Lanier

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures…

— Jaron Lanier

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons…

— Jaron Lanier

“A Nelsonian solution provides a simple, predictable way to share without limit or hassle over digital networks, and yet doesn’t destroy middle…

— Jaron Lanier

There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the…

— Jaron Lanier

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

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

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

“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the…

— Jaron Lanier

The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote.…

— Jaron Lanier

“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told…

— Jaron Lanier

As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace…

— Jaron Lanier

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have…

— Jaron Lanier

“Unfortunately, by forcing more and more value off the books as the world economy turns into an information economy, the ideal of…

— Jaron Lanier

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

Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show…

— Jaron Lanier

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

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

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

“With an eBook, however, you are not a first-class commercial citizen. Instead, you have only purchased tenuous rights within someone else’s company…

— Jaron Lanier

We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves…

— Jaron Lanier

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing…

— Jaron Lanier

I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs,…

— Jaron Lanier

What is extraordinary is that in the United States the current culture desires feelings of machismo and power, but at the same…

— Jaron Lanier

“In a more incremental world, attributions and rewards will still be contested, no doubt, but particular outcomes will no longer make or…

— Jaron Lanier

Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent…

— Jaron Lanier

If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll…

— Jaron Lanier

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is…

— Jaron Lanier

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original…

— Jaron Lanier

“What did you think would happen? We in Silicon Valley undermined copyright to make commerce become more about services instead of content:…

— Jaron Lanier

“Ideally, earning full-on wealth, not just cash, will become more like what spending is like already. There will be a multitude of…

— Jaron Lanier

“The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which…

— Jaron Lanier

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of…

— Jaron Lanier

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

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

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole…

— Jaron Lanier