Computers Quote by Jaron Lanier

“Hence a bolder techno-religion seeks to sever the humanist umbilical cord altogether. It foresees a world that does not revolve around the desires and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Humanism holds that experiences occur inside us, and that we ought to find within ourselves the meaning of all that happens, thereby infusing the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.”

— Alastair Reynolds

“Dataism adopts a strictly functional approach to humanity, appraising the value of human experiences according to their function in data-processing mechanisms.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Humans are relinquishing authority to the free market, to crowd wisdom and to external algorithms partly because we cannot deal with the deluge of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as…

— Yuval Noah Harari

As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what…

— Seth Godin

“Since we crave reliable partnership and emotional reciprocity, we project human qualities onto machines and treat them as if they share our intentions. However,…

— Erik Pevernagie

Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that…

— Douglas Lenat

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the…

— Jaron Lanier

Dataism is a new ethical system that says, yes, humans were special and important because up until now they were the most sophisticated data…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets…

— Yuval Noah Harari