Archive for Jaron Lanier

33 Yellow highlight | Location: 168 Even though Silicon Valley types have a sanitized name for this phase, “engagement,” we fear it enough to keep our own children away from it. Many of the Silicon Valley kids I know attend Waldorf schools, which generally forbid electronics. Yellow highlight | Location: 251 The prime directive to be engaging reinforces...

56 Yellow highlight | Location: 265 Shared lucid dreaming. A way out of the dull persistence of physicality. Yellow highlight | Location: 468 Jewish admonition to “choose life” in a children’s book about Jewish culture. There was a logic to it, since death would come soon enough, no matter what, so choosing life was at least a reasonable...