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Google's thing is not advertis...

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

Musicians and journalists are ...

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 127 quotes

It is impossible to work in in...

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

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

My parents were kind of like m...

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

We're losing track of the vast...

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

If you're old enough to have a...

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.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

Criticism is always easier tha...

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

When you have a global mush, p...

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

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

Advertising is the edge of wha...

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.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

Human beings either function a...

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

Facebook says, 'Privacy is the...

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

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

Mobs and dictators were made f...

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

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

Writing and thinking is not ec...

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

America's Facebook generation ...

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

I'm astonished at how readily ...

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

Advertisers are not thinking r...

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 127 quotes

The interesting thing about ad...

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

A remarkable thing about the S...

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

After my mother's death, I had...

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

An intelligent person feels gu...

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

Jaron Lanier 127 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....