Jaron Lanier

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience…

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox…

What does it mean to not be alone? I’ve approached that question through music, technology…

If there’s any object in human experience that’s a precedent for what a computer should…

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering…

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design…

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless…

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can’t be. It can only…

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently…

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting…

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more…

I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy…

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough – they look for technology to lead instead of trying…

After my mother’s death, I had such difficulty relating to people…

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own…