Jaron Lanier Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.

  Jaron Lanier

  Silly, Technology, Reality

• Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

  Jaron Lanier

  Thinking, Ideas, Profound

• Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Views, Together

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• I'm an advocate of human nature.

  Jaron Lanier

  Human Nature, Humans

  "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.

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