#un

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#both #found #i #interest #lapse

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#brain #bring #different #different parts #dropping

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. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#blog #comments #communication #fragmentary #harmless

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#advertising #annoying #appreciate #been #being

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

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#amount #because #distributed #exist #facebook

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

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#astonishingly #childhood #culture #get #html

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#growth #korean #north #percent #stunted