Jaron Lanier Quotes

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• Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from…
• Information is alienated experience.
• We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to…
• Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.
• Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.
• Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups,…
• Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.
• The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.
• Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to…
• The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a…
• If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.
• If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what…
• If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.
• An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth…
• Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.
• I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of empathy and humanity…
• Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
• A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to…
• A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.
• It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you…

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