Jaron Lanier

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

Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour,…

— Jaron Lanier

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have…

— Jaron Lanier

We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's…

— Jaron Lanier

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

— Jaron Lanier

“There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within…

— Jaron Lanier

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

“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the…

— Jaron Lanier

There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the…

— Jaron Lanier

“Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience.... If…

— Jaron Lanier

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of…

— Jaron Lanier

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software…

— Jaron Lanier

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

— Jaron Lanier

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around…

— Jaron Lanier

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.

— Jaron Lanier

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

— Jaron Lanier

“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

“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

Some of the fantasy objects arising from cybernetic totalism (like the noosphere, which is a supposed global brain formed by the sum…

— Jaron Lanier

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms…

— Jaron Lanier

“What did you think would happen? We in Silicon Valley undermined copyright to make commerce become more about services instead of content:…

— Jaron Lanier

“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

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

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of…

— Jaron Lanier

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than…

— Jaron Lanier