- Expensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Appreciate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Different Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.
- Capabilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.
- Distributed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.
- Accomplishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an advocate of human nature.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.
- Adventure
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020