More Jaron Lanier (on the radio/ KUOW)
“The problem comes up when you put some information that is supposed to represent who you are on the computer and then after that, you treat it as real and after that you change your life, you lower yourself to conform to it”
…If you are seventeen you are creating your status, you are creating your position and your peer group and you have to conform in a way…you conform out of fear instead of love and then you are reducing yourself, you’re reducing your ability to experiment and recreate yourself.”
…If Bob Dylan had had a Facebook page he couldn’t have existed nor could have Mark Twain or Jack Kerouac. In order to invent yourself, in order to become an adult you have to do some forgetting”
