Once 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 LanierThe most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.
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 LanierMy parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
Jaron LanierI'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.
Jaron Lanier