Jaron Lanier Quotes
Top 69 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.
Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
In order to make tech into something that empowers people, people have to be willing to act as if we can handle being powerful.
The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.
The decision reduction service would use its particular style and competence to create bundles of decisions you could accept or reject en masse.
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.
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.
Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.
Wouldn't it be easier just to treat the information space as a public resource and tax or charge companies somehow for the benefit of using it?
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.
Not only have consumers prioritized flash and laziness over empowerment, but we have also acquiesced to being spied on all the time.
Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.
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.
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth.
Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
When 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?
In a more incremental world, attributions and rewards will still be contested, no doubt, but particular outcomes will no longer make or break lives.
I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of emphaty and humanity in that process.
People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.
Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.
I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.
Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.
I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
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 can even rise to your feet.
I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.
I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.