Author: Jaron Lanier

Design

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way first and foremost but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

Jaron Lanier

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way first and foremost but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

Design

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 Lanier

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.

Dad

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other that sort of thing.

Jaron Lanier

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other that sort of thing.

Computers

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.

Jaron Lanier

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.

Communication

Anonymous blog comments vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless but as a whole this widespread practice of fragmentary impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

Jaron Lanier

Anonymous blog comments vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless but as a whole this widespread practice of fragmentary impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

Loneliness

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era it will have to come from the soul alone.

Jaron Lanier

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era it will have to come from the soul alone.