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Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality QUOTES

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality QUOTES

1 " Cyber” comes from the Greek and is related to navigation. When you sail, you must constantly adjust to changes in wind and surf. "

― Jaron Lanier , Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

2 " I felt the world needed a tool for the spontaneous invention of new virtual worlds that would express the stuff of the mind that was otherwise impenetrable. If you could conjure just the right virtual world, it would open up souls and math and love. "

― Jaron Lanier , Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

3 " My early experience was of the dominance of flavor over form, of qualia over explanation. "

― Jaron Lanier , Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

4 " Like cowboys, hackers supposedly experienced freedom in a wild land that yielded only to our special prowess and expertise. We roamed as we pleased, inventing reality for everyone else. Normal people would wait helplessly as we blazed their new world. What surprised me over the next few decades is that all those alien, “normal” people, all over the globe, chose to buy into our myth. You let us reinvent your world! I’m still curious why. "

― Jaron Lanier , Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

5 " You’re wrong, it’s not like I’m from Marin. Those people believe in things without evidence. Like astrology.” “Um, maybe no one told you, but you can’t have sex—ever—if you make fun of astrology around here. "

― Jaron Lanier , Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

6 " Every time you believe in AI, you are reducing your belief in human agency and value. You are undoing yourself and everyone else. "

― Jaron Lanier , Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

7 " Nothing about computers is inevitable. But we’ve put such a massive number of bits into place that it’s often too much work to remember how each brick of the edifice we live in is nothing but a peculiar obsession someone else put into place, once upon a time. "

― Jaron Lanier , Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality