Explore Quotes by Jaron Lanier

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

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

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

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.