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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when theres a single numeric average. But if its a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and thats crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. – Jaron Lanier

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Ive always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. – Jaron Lanier

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Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. – Jaron Lanier

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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

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