Quotes by Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget

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There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on with — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) sug — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable. — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall. — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence. — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
You have to be somebody before you can share yourself. — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has co — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier ti — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. A — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The strangeness is being l — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just lowered your own st — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminate — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact that the bits are di — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
When I work with experimental gadgets, like new variations on virtual reality, in a lab environment, I am always reminde — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget