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A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
Jaron Lanier
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Jaron Lanier
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 3
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I'm an advocate of human nature.
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A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.
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Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
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The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.
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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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Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.
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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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People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
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There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.
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Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.
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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.
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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
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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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Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
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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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Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
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In fact, one reason I am interested in developing things in virtual reality is that they're so fascinating. I can come up with problems that are harder than warfare to take up people's time.
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People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.
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You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.
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Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.
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