#ex

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

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. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#changed #edge #experience #explains #how

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. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#activated #approach #been #before #brain

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. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#brain #bring #different #different parts #dropping

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#available #create #expresses #fit #into

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#advertising #because #doing #expression #google

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. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cold #done #drawn #effect #experiment

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#because #change #complexity #crummy #expensive

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

#always #approach #computer #computer science #exotic

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