People try to treat technology as an object, and it cant be. It can only be a channel. – Jaron Lanier
I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way thats very cold and has such an opposite effect. – Jaron Lanier
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
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