Rafael(bobeirasa) Lopes

“So, in this book, I have spun a long tale of belief in the opposites of computationalism, the noosphere, the Singularity, web 2.0, the long tail, and all the rest. I hope the volume of my contrarianism will foster an alternative mental environment, where the exciting opportunity to start creating a new digital humanism can begin.”
― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not A Gadget

“You Are Not a Gadget argues that certain specific, popular internet designs of the moment—not the internet as a whole—tend to pull us into life patterns that gradually degrade the ways in which each of us exists as an individual.”
― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not A Gadget

“Different media designs stimulate different potentials in human nature.”
― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not A Gadget

“People might think they’re in control, until one fine day the rate of robot improvement ramps up so quickly that superintelligent robots will suddenly rule the Earth.”
― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not A Gadget