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“When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.”

Quote by Jaron Lanier

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

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You Are Not a Gadget

This book delves into the relationship between technology and human nature, questioning the role of gadgets in shaping our lives and challenging the notion of a gadget-centric society. more

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Jaron Lanier is a writer, musician, and computer scientist. He is renowned for his pioneering work in the field of virtual reality (VR) and is recognized for his critical analysis of network culture in his book 'You Are Not a Gadget'. more

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“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.”

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“Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.”

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“I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.”

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“There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.”

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“The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.”

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