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Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful
fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences
it in a useful way.

Jaron Lanier

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The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Jaron Lanier

Stichwörter: philosophy change computer gadget

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Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

Jaron Lanier

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Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms

Jaron Lanier

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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.

Jaron Lanier

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we have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

Jaron Lanier

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A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

Jaron Lanier

Stichwörter: friendship

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