"People try to treat technology as an object, and it can’t be. It can only be a channel."
― Jaron Lanier
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― Jaron Lanier
More From 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."
- "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."
- "I mean, you can’t have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over."
More In Technology
- "I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I’m totally obsessed with technology. I’m always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail."― Jodi Picoult
- "I’ve gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That’s a great story for America."― Terry McAuliffe
- "Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it’s just another way of recording an actor’s performance."― Andy Serkis