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

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Were losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential. – 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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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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In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. – James Gunn

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We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data. – Reed Hundt

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