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 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… — 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… — 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
“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
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
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
“Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and… — 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
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
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. — 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
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people. — 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
A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall. — 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
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 foundational idea of humanistic computing is that provenance is valuable. Information is people in disguise, and people ought to be paid… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested.… — 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
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. — 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
