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Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
Jaron Lanier
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Jaron Lanier
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 3
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There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They always had exaggerated canine teeth and a certain sort of expression. That led to speculation about whether at an earlier stage in the human experience we were hunted by some sort of carnivore.
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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.
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I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to implementation. And there is an extraordinary gadget lust that drives the military. So it's possible that war is just the ultimate expression of creativity.
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When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
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We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance, however remote, that we might miss an opportunity to reduce the occurrence of war.
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A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
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There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
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Our times demand rejection of seven word bios.
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When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.
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Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.
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People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
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Humans change themselves through technology.
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To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.
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We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
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I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.
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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.
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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.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
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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.
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