"If you love a medium made of software,……" — Jaron Lanier
"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."
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68 Quotes by Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it…
- Information is alienated experience.
- We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all…
- Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s…
- 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…
- 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…
- The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric…
- If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain…
- If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.
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