Jaron Lanier Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Jaron Lanier quotes and sayings page 4 (artist). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 46 we have.
“I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.”
“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.”
“I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.”
“I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.”
“What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.”
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