Jaron Lanier Quotes About Advertising

Quotes about: Advertising

• If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.

  Jaron Lanier

  Money, Artist, Musician

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.83, Vintage

• Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

  Jaron Lanier

  People, Progress, Way

• The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

  Jaron Lanier

  Interesting, Imperfect, Advertising

• I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

  Jaron Lanier

  Mean, Information, Advertising

  "Should Facebook's Users Share Its Riches?". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 15, 2012.

• Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

  Jaron Lanier

  Inspirational, Civilization, Trying

• Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

  Jaron Lanier

  Expression, Google, Links

• At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining.

  Jaron Lanier

  Self, People, Giving

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