Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.
Jaron LanierThere will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.
Jaron LanierIn history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can look principally in two places. One is weapons and the other is musical instruments. My hypothesis is that instruments are usually ahead of weapons. In fact, I think you can find many examples of instruments being predecessors of weapons and very few in the reverse.
Jaron LanierI've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
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