Jaron Lanier Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Engineering, Information

• We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

  Jaron Lanier

  Children, Kids, Technology

• The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, People, Important

• 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

  Technology, Thinking, New Experiences

• There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Data, Realization

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Technology, Soul, Style

  "Taking Sock" by Jaron Lanier, www.wired.com. January 1, 1998.

• 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

• We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

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  Technology, Looks, Information

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.32, Vintage

• Humans change themselves through technology.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Humans

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

  Jaron Lanier

  Change, Technology, Thinking

• When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Design, Brain

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.4, Vintage

• 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

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

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, People, Trying

  Interview with Corey S. Powell, www.scientificamerican.com. September 15, 1996.

• I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Belief, Artificial Intelligence

  "One Half of a Manifesto". www.edge.org. November 10, 2000.

• It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Games, Development

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

  Jaron Lanier

  Writing, Mean, Technology

• As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.

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  Powerful, Technology, Networking

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can look principally in two places. One is weapons and the other is musical instruments. My hypothesis is that instruments are usually ahead of weapons. In fact, I think you can find many examples of instruments being predecessors of weapons and very few in the reverse.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Self, Agendas

  "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.

• Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, People, Expectations

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

• I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds.

  Jaron Lanier

  Military, Smart, Technology

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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