“The Internet has created the most precise mirror of people as a whole that we've yet had. It is not a summary… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry: It’s not excessively expensive or a threat to the efficiency of the Internet to keep track of where information came… — 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
“An endless series of gambits backed by gigantic investments encouraged young people entering the online world for the first time to create… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
“This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. At the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact that the bits are… — 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
As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The strangeness is being leached away by… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by… — 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
