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"People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel."

Jaron Lanier on Technology

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  • "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

    Albert Einstein on Technology

  • "The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

    Oscar Wilde on Technology

  • "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

    Arthur C. Clarke on Technology

  • "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."

    John F. Kennedy on Technology

  • "I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."

    John F. Kennedy on Technology

More quotes by Jaron Lanier

  • "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."

  • "What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means."

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

  • "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."

  • "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."

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