Jaron Lanier

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

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.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.