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Jaron Lanier | science

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.

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Jaron Lanier science

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.

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future Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier | future

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

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experience Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier | experience

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Post date December 10, 2022
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If there’s any object in human experience that’s a precedent for what a computer should be like, it’s a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

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experience Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier | experience

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Post date December 10, 2022
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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.

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design Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier | design

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

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design Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier | design

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.

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Death Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier | death

After my mother’s death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

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Dad Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier | dad

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I’m willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

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computers Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier | computers

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.

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