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Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

~Jaron Lanier

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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.

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I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

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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.

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Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

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Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

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Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

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I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

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The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.

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I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 3rd, 1960

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