I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.
Jaron LanierSeparation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.
Jaron LanierIndividuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.
Jaron LanierStyle used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
Jaron LanierThe cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.
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