Jaron Lanier Quotes About Values

• An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

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  Jaron Lanier

  Struggle   Artist  

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• The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

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  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

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  Beautiful  

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• Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

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  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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