Quotes by Technology We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language. Jaron Lanier technologykidschildren 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 styletechnologysoul I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds. Jaron Lanier smarttechnologymilitary In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can look principally in two places. One is weapons and the other is musical instruments. My hypothesis is that instruments are usually ahead of weapons. In fact, I think you can find many examples of instruments being predecessors of weapons and very few in the reverse. Jaron Lanier technologytwothinking All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced. Jared Diamond environmentaltechnologybelieve People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel. Jaron Lanier technologytryingpeople I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy. Jason Bateman technologycrazythinking It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction. Jaron Lanier technologydevelopmentgames Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today. Jared Diamond technologyliteraturemean I don't get a chance to cry that often on film, so I was hoping that talent would come my way, that day. I cheated, I guess, when I just started looking at my technology device - my iPhone - to look at pictures of my kids, before I did the scene where I had to cry. That was a good trick that I found. Jason Bateman iphonetechnologykids There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper. Jaron Lanier datatechnologyrealization As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on. Jaron Lanier networkingtechnologypowerful Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. Jason Epstein inventorybookstorestechnology Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient. Jaron Lanier technologysillyreality We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good. Jaron Lanier informationtechnologylooks Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain. Jaron Lanier new-experiencestechnologythinking Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet. Jason Hirschhorn going-awaytechnologyyears The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people. Jaron Lanier technologyimportantpeople What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. Jaron Lanier technologywritingmean Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth. Jaron Lanier technologyexpectationspeople«96979899100101102103104105106»
