Jaron Lanier Quotes

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

If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty. If content is worthless, then people will start to become empty-headed and contentless.

What if only humans are real, and information is not?

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.