Quote by Jaron Lanier
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to dis

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

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Ive 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. – Jaron Lanier

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Science
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What does it mean to not be alone? Ive approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. – Jaron Lanier

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alone
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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

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Computers
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Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel. – Brian Celio

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Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology. – Simon Mainwaring

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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons Im so concerned. – Major Owens

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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. – Jacques Ellul

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