Quote by Jaron Lanier
People try to treat technology as an object, and it cant be. It ca

People try to treat technology as an object, and it cant be. It can only be a channel. – 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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The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. – Jaron Lanier

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My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that Im willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. – Jaron Lanier

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I enjoy privacy. I think its nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and Id like to preserve some of that. – Maggie Q

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The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is. – James Dyson

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The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm. – Edward Tufte

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To make a rocknroll record, technology is the least important thing. – Keith Richards

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