I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.
Jaron LanierOne good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.
Jaron LanierOnce you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code, transcended any particularity it might have at a given time. It was as if we had become the gods of vision and had effectively created all possible images, for they would merely be reshufflings of the bits in the computers we had before us, completely under our command.
Jaron LanierI 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.
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