People try to treat technology as an object, and it cant be. It can only be a channel. – Jaron Lanier
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
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
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