Jaron Lanier

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. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#enough #exactly #facebook #friends #job

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#dictators #each #flourish #made #mobs

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

#eventually #get #journalists #kill #middle-class

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#had #kind #like #me #parents

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. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#brains #else #get #going #good

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#object #only #people #technology #treat

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#amount #because #distributed #exist #facebook

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. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#alone #between #come #digital #era

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#advertising #annoy #endeavors #human #imperfect

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#base #customer #customer base #exactly #facing