What does it mean to not be alone? Ive approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. – Jaron Lanier
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
After my mothers death, I had such difficulty relating to people. – Jaron Lanier
People try to treat technology as an object, and it cant be. It can only be a channel. – Jaron Lanier
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death