Economy Quotes by Jaron Lanier

8 Economy quotes by Jaron Lanier

When you want a glimpse of a tech visionary’s stance on economic matters, this concise set of eight quotes does the job. The collection is small, yet each sentence reflects his blend of futurist thinking and critique of current financial systems.

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At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if…

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One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of…

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I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to…

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A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

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Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to…

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Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing…

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An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation…

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A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the…

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