Jaron Lanier
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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.” -Jaron Lanier
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“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.” -Jaron Lanier
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“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.” -Jaron Lanier
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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.” -Jaron Lanier
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“If there’s any object in human experience that’s a precedent for what a computer should be like, it’s a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.” -Jaron Lanier
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“The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.” -Jaron Lanier
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“After my mother’s death, I had such difficulty relating to people.” -Jaron Lanier
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“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.” -Jaron Lanier
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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.” -Jaron Lanier
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“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.” -Jaron Lanier
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“My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.” -Jaron Lanier
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What does it mean to not be alone? I’ve approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. – Jaron Lanier
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