3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier 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.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier 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.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I’m willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier 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.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier I’ve always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier What does it mean to not be alone? I’ve approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier People try to treat technology as an object, and it can’t be. It can only be a channel.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier 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.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier 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.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
