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Humans change themselves through technology.
Jaron Lanier
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Jaron Lanier
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 3
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
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New York City
New York
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A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
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Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
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People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.
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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 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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Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.
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Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living. We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.
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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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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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You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.
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Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.
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After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
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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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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.
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Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
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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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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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Information is alienated experience.
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