Jaron Lanier Quotes About Middle Class

• Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

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  Jaron Lanier

  Photography   Jobs   Class  

  "Who Owns the Future?". Book by Jaron Lanier, 2013.

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• Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved.

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  Jaron Lanier

  Pain   Class   Ideas  

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

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  Jaron Lanier

  Class   Musician  

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