#techno

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

#activated #approach #been #before #brain

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 think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#because #change #complexity #crummy #expensive

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

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

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. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#alone #between #come #digital #era

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#being #clear #commensurate #criticized #ethical

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#core #down #full #job #people

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#advancing #competing #demands #efforts #fiat

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist. ↗

— Steven Levy

#built #computer #every #into #lives