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Quote by Jaron Lanier
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, e

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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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

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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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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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One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address – 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small. – Jon Postel

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I like computers. I like the Internet. Its a tool that can be used. But dont be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. – Jerry Brown

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I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether theyll be screened on phones, on computers – on everything. – Michel Hazanavicius

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Well, we didnt have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band. – James Iha

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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. – Pope John Paul II

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