01c. 1960 ADWhen we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
04c. 1960 ADthat you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
05c. 1960 ADabout: Don’t post anonymously unless you really might be in danger.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
06c. 1960 ADThe only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
07c. 1960 ADLinux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
08c. 1960 ADOne good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
09c. 1960 ADWe're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
10c. 1960 ADAnonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
11c. 1960 ADMusicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
12c. 1960 ADIt is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
13c. 1960 ADI'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 machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
14c. 1960 ADIf there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
15c. 1960 ADThe basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
16c. 1960 ADThe 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 design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
17c. 1960 ADI think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
18c. 1960 ADTechnologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
19c. 1960 ADStyle used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
20c. 1960 ADAdvertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
21c. 1960 ADWhat does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.Jaron Lanier / quote ↗
22c. 1960 ADWeb 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 / quote ↗
