In his book “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto” Jaron Lanier criticizes digital technologies, including Wikipedia and social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, which he describes as dehumanizing and designed to encourage shallow interactions.
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“The thing about technology is that it’s made the world of information ever more dominant. And there’s so much loss in that. It really does feel as if we’ve sworn allegiance to a dwarf world rather than to a giant world.”
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“If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?”
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