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Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. – Jaron Lanier

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Technologists provide tools that can improve peoples lives. But I want to be clear that I dont think technology by itself improves peoples lives, since often Im criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless theres commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, its for naught. – Jaron Lanier

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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. – Jaron Lanier

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