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
When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like… — 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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
