#ect

I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cold #done #drawn #effect #experiment

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

#accepted #any #around #astonished #basically

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

— Jaron Lanier

#object #only #people #technology #treat

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#data #democracy #design #designed #effect

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#aspect #consciousness #our #reality #time

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#assign #beyond #continuing #entities #extensions

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#business #illusion #innocence #must #other

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#beings #creating #imagining #intelligent #people

These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation. ↗

— Steve Largent

#big enough #capital #companies #current #enough

What you see happening right now with some of the consolidation is all about more spectrum and capital formation that give you the scale, scope and resources to invest in that 3G world. ↗

— Steve Largent

#capital #consolidation #formation #give #happening