“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.”
— Jaron Lanier
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Category: technology
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If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of
“If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.”
— Jaron Lanier
Author: Jaron Lanier
Category: technology
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Advertising is the edge of what people
“Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.”
— Jaron Lanier
Author: Jaron Lanier
Category: experience
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Style used to be an interaction between
“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 the soul alone.”
— Jaron Lanier
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Category: alone
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Web 2 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful
“Web 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
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Category: future
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Web 2 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful
“Web 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
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Category: nature
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Musicians and journalists are the canaries in
“Musicians 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
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Category: computers
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Style used to be an interaction between
“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 the soul alone.”
— Jaron Lanier
Author: Jaron Lanier
Category: technology
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Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and
“Anonymous 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
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Category: communication
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My parents were kind of like me
“My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.”
— Jaron Lanier
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Category: amazing
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The basic problem is that web 2
“The 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
Author: Jaron Lanier
Category: design
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