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. – Jaron Lanier
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering. – Jaron Lanier
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. – Jaron Lanier
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