Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. — 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
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
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
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
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
