#gen

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

#about #adventure #always #america #american

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

#downloading #feels #guilty #ideology #intelligent

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#agenda #allow #been #contact #distract

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#central #exist #existence #fact #general

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#every #experience #generates #involved #mind

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#around #been #billions #bubbles #bursts

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

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things. ↗

— James Larkin

#arms #could #god #great #great things

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#america #class #create #economic #ensure