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Jul 4, 2011 · Lanier’s mother and father belonged to a circle of artists in Greenwich Village, but they moved soon after Jaron was born—on May 3, 1960—first to Colorado, and then to a spot near El Paso ...
Nov 3, 2018 · VR pioneer Jaron Lanier talks with WIRED about why the original architecture of the internet forced us into a kind of information trickery, and how we can fix it—to everyone’s benefit.
In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could share its knowledge -- but even then, this vision was haunted by the dark side of how it could turn out: with personal devices that control our lives, monitor our data and feed us stimuli. (Sound familiar?) In this visionary talk, Lanier reflects on a "globally ...
Nov 21, 2017 · Lanier's new memoir, Dawn of the New Everything, explores his early VR career. "The canvas of VR cannot be the external world," says Lanier. "It has to be your body." Cole Wilson. Jaron Lanier may ...
Lanier was a founder or principal of four startups presently owned by Oracle, Adobe, Google, and Pfizer. He is currently the Prime Unifying Scientist at Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, which spells out “Octopus”, in reference to his fascination with cephalopod neurology. He is also a musician and composer who has ...
Nov 12, 2017 · Now, in a new memoir-cum-manifesto, Jaron Lanier recounts his sad, unusual childhood and calls for a re-evaluation of our ties with the digital environment Sun 12 Nov 2017 04.30 EST Last modified ...
Mar 17, 2013 · Jaron Lanier is that rarest of rare birds – an uber-geek who is highly critical of the world created by the technology he helped to create. Now in his 50s, he first came to prominence in the ...
