The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share
Jaron LanierWeb 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
Jaron LanierWe have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.
Jaron LanierChemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.
Jaron LanierOf all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.
Jaron Lanier