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Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier
American Artist
Born: May 3, 1960
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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. Jaron Lanier
Website You About Something Networking Fit Site Available Social Create Who Expresses
If 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
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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. Jaron Lanier
Life You Facebook Old Job Old Friends Enough Exactly Look Up Friends Old Enough Use
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
Alone Technology Soul Digital Will Style Tools Between Come Limiting Era Were Human Interaction Used Human Soul
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish. Jaron Lanier
Will Made Other Soon Were Mobs Dictators Appear Each Flourish
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 machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. Jaron Lanier
Science Computer Science Heroic Wild Approach More Computer Highest Leads Adventures Felt Always Goal Exotic Than Where Information Interesting
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
Technology Distract Lost Own Other Our Has-Been Somehow Adoration Allow Contact Been Agenda Then Us Original Each
I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big. Jaron Lanier
Big Think Dramatic New Come Ideas Most New Ideas Little Then Companies Grow
I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect. Jaron Lanier
Technology Experiment Cold Intimacy Way Ways Drawn Feel Because Opposite Effect Very Done Interact Much Notions
The 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
Wisdom Thoughts You People Decision Made Single Before Matters Design Think Able Something Crowd Crowds Price Share Committee Ox Want Crap Average Choosing Who Works Groups
Advertisers 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
Technology Before Thinking Enough Approach About Neuroscience Lead Instead New Look Advertiser Parts Been Brain Trying Experiences Capabilities Radically Bring
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people. Jaron Lanier
Death People Mother Difficulty Relating Had After
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. Jaron Lanier
Sometimes Walls Sense Live Other Willing Parallel Eccentricity Adult House Sort Felt Up Lacking Grew Little Each Dad Sufficient Thing
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
Musicians Will More More And More Computers Powerful Journalists Off Get Eventually Professions
Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. Jaron Lanier
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The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect. Jaron Lanier
Sometimes Looking Ourselves About Imperfect Like Annoy Advertising Endeavors Human Interesting Interesting Thing Us Really Thing Things
Technologists 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
Technology People Think Too Tools Unless Moral Criticized Clear Since Along Go Provide Itself Improve Improves Often Being Want Ethical Naught Lives
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. Jaron Lanier
Culture Valley Status Silicon Silicon Valley About Structure Remarkable Accomplishment Prowess Technical Based Thing
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
Democracy Problem First Design Software Side Tools Way Seductive Web Data Tend Support Supportive Provide Foremost Effect Basic Designed Phenomena Gather
If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship. Jaron Lanier
Rights World Internet Google Enter Kind Nobody Likes Knows Came Authorship Any Where Anymore Wants Information Much Copied
America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. Jaron Lanier
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Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable. Jaron Lanier
Writing Thinking Economically Sustainable
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me. Jaron Lanier
Me Culture Path Punctuation Kids Pretty Web Stuff Mass Know Around Shocking Get Childhood Little Little Kids Now Technical Right UNIX
People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel. Jaron Lanier
Technology People Treat Try Channel Object Only
I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook. Jaron Lanier
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An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. Jaron Lanier
Music Ideology Guilty Musician Feels Without Cover Intelligent Intelligent Person Person Use Paying Downloading

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