It is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon. Humanity …
There are always crises, Johannes thought. Ours will be over eventually. Yes, the worries said in him, but the end of one crisis is only the beginning of the next.
It is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon. Humanity …
If I asked you in the midst of a tragedy, “Shall I end your suffering and make all well again?” you would answer, “Please do, I beg it.” If instead I asked you after the tragedy, “Are you glad you lived through it? Did you grow wiser from the experience?” you would answer, “Yes! Thank you for not stopping the thing prematurely.” Humans are not to be trusted.
It is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon. Humanity …
The island was so secluded they had both forgotten that life mostly consists of well-meant decisions with hideous consequences.
It is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon. Humanity …
The only noble desire is for the end of desire. Few are brave enough to admit this.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
No one is more fatuously impractical than the “successful” executive who spends his whole life absorbed in frantic paperwork with the objective of retiring in comfort at sixty-five, when it will all be too late. Only those who have cultivated the art of living completely in the present have any use for making plans for the future, for when the plans mature they will be able to enjoy the results.
Jaron Lanier: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (2018, Holt & Company, Henry)
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the dangers of social media, explains why its …
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the dangers of …
Memes might seem to amplify what you are saying, but that is always an illusion. You might launch an infectious meme about a political figure, and you might be making a great point, but in the larger picture, you are reinforcing the idea that virality is truth. Your point will be undone by whatever other point is more viral.
— Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the dangers of …
Believing something only because you learned it through a system is a way of giving your cognitive power over to that system.
— Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
(from back cover)
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, …
Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and …
Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York …
the point of fake news isn’t just to make it so that no one can tell what’s true, it’s to make it so that no one cares anymore, so that when you try to get all your friends to go out and march about something that they should already be thinking about, they’re all like, ‘Eh, is that even real?’ Your enemies don’t need people to disagree with you, they just need people not to care.”
Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York …
“You don’t get to do anything for people with a just cause. If you’re competent, and if they give you permission, you can do something with them.”
