Jaron Lanier Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.

  Jaron Lanier

  Silly, Technology, Reality

• I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to implementation. And there is an extraordinary gadget lust that drives the military. So it's possible that war is just the ultimate expression of creativity.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Military, Creativity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• In fact, one reason I am interested in developing things in virtual reality is that they're so fascinating. I can come up with problems that are harder than warfare to take up people's time.

  Jaron Lanier

  Reality, People, Warfare

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

  Jaron Lanier

  Reality, Nervous, Nervous System

• We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

  Jaron Lanier

  Beautiful, Creativity, Reality

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