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1. "It will not suffer if it doesn't get what it wants." ~ Jaron Lanier

2. "that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts." ~ Jaron Lanier

3. "about: Don't post anonymously unless you really might be in danger." ~ Jaron Lanier

4. "You have to be somebody before you can share yourself." ~ Jaron Lanier

5. "Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience.... If there are enough zombies recruited into our world, I worry about the potential for a self-fulfilling prophecy. Maybe if people pretend they are not conscious or do not have free will - or that the cloud of online people is a person; if they pretend there is nothing special about the perspective of the individual - then perhaps we have the power to make it so. We might be able to collectively achieve antimagic. Humans are free. We can commmit suicide for the benefit of a Singularity. We can engineer our genes to better support an imaginary hive mind. We can make culture and journalism into second-rate activities and spend centuries remixing the detritus of the 1960s and other eras from before individual creativity went out of fashion. Or we can believe in ourselves. By chance, it might turn out we are real." ~ Jaron Lanier

6. "A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall." ~ Jaron Lanier

7. "Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth." ~ Jaron Lanier

8. "Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms" ~ Jaron Lanier

9. "I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of emphaty and humanity in that process." ~ Jaron Lanier

10. "Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action." ~ Jaron Lanier

11. "we have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good." ~ Jaron Lanier

12. "Information doesn't deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a usefulfantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiencesit in a useful way." ~ Jaron Lanier

13. "Some of the fantasy objects arising from cybernetic totalism (like the noosphere, which is a supposed global brain formed by the sum of all the human brains connected through the internet) happen to motivate infelicitous technological designs. For instance, designs that celebrate the noosphere tend to energize the inner troll, or bad actor, within humans." ~ Jaron Lanier

14. "Los bits se presentan como si estuvieran vivos, mientras que los humanos son fragmentos pasajeros. Todos los comentarios anónimos que aparecen en blosgs y vídeos deben haber sido obra de personas reales, pero ¿quién sabe dónde están ahora, o si están muertos?La colmena digital está creciendo a expensas de la individualidad." ~ Jaron Lanier

15. "La experiencia es el único proceso que puede desalienar la información." ~ Jaron Lanier

16. "¿Ese buscador sabe realmente lo que queremos, o estamos siguiendo el juego, bajando nuestro nivel de exigencia para que el buscador parezca inteligente? Mientras se espera que el contacto con nuevas tecnologías avanzadas cambie la perspectiva humana, el ejercicio de tratar la inteligencia de las máquinas como si fuera real requiere que las personas reduzcan su conexión con la realidad" ~ Jaron Lanier

17. "La tecnología etérea y digital que reemplazó a la imprenta ha alcanzado la mayoria de edad en un momento en que esta ideología lamentable que critico domina la cultura tecnológica. La autoría- la mismísima idea del punto de vista individual- no es una de las prioridades de la nueva ideología." ~ Jaron Lanier

18. "Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors." ~ Jaron Lanier

19. "If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends." ~ Jaron Lanier

20. "Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions." ~ Jaron Lanier

21. "When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do." ~ Jaron Lanier

22. "America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves." ~ Jaron Lanier

23. "Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting." ~ Jaron Lanier

24. "What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The printing that takes place in North Korea today, for instance, is nothing more than propaganda for a personality cult. What is important about printing presses is not the mechanism, but the authors." ~ Jaron Lanier

25. "A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other." ~ Jaron Lanier

26. "When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?" ~ Jaron Lanier

27. "Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence." ~ Jaron Lanier

28. "What if only humans are real, and information is not?" ~ Jaron Lanier

29. "Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience." ~ Jaron Lanier

30. "Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and a woman hide, and a judge is asked to determine which is which by relying only on the texts of notes passed back and forth.Turing replaced the woman with a computer. Can the judge tell which is the man? If not, is the computer conscious? Intelligent? Does it deserve equal rights?It's impossible for us to know what role the torture Turing was enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test. But it is undeniable that one of the key figures in the defeat of fascism was destroyed, by our side, after the war, because he was gay. No wonder his imagination pondered the rights of strange creatures." ~ Jaron Lanier

31. "A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out." ~ Jaron Lanier

32. "People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time." ~ Jaron Lanier

33. "Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day." ~ Jaron Lanier

34. "A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess." ~ Jaron Lanier

35. "Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site." ~ Jaron Lanier

36. "Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish." ~ Jaron Lanier

37. "I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online." ~ Jaron Lanier

38. "Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people." ~ Jaron Lanier

39. "I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface." ~ Jaron Lanier

40. "I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook." ~ Jaron Lanier

41. "People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good." ~ Jaron Lanier

42. "After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people." ~ Jaron Lanier

43. "An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it." ~ Jaron Lanier

44. "Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress." ~ Jaron Lanier

45. "I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it." ~ Jaron Lanier

46. "An endless series of gambits backed by gigantic investments encouraged young people entering the online world for the first time to create standardized presences on sites like Facebook. Commercial interests promoted the widespread adoption of standardized designs like the blog, and these designs encouraged pseudonymity in at least some aspects of their designs, such as comments, instead of the proud extroversion that characterized the first wave of web culture.Instead of people being treated as the sources of their own creativity, commercial aggregation and abstraction sites presented anonymized fragments of creativity as products that might have fallen from the sky or been dug up from the ground, obscuring the true sources." ~ Jaron Lanier

47. "Here's a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that those middle-class jobs created? This book is built to answer questions like these, which will only become more common as digital networking hollows out every industry, from media to medicine to manufacturing." ~ Jaron Lanier

48. "A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age." ~ Jaron Lanier

49. "Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it." ~ Jaron Lanier

50. "Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved." ~ Jaron Lanier

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