Jaron Lanier with his khene outside the KCRW studio. For best-selling author Jaron Lanier, society’s dependence on digital networks kindled the economic recession and is responsible for the declining ...

Lanier was one of the creators of our current digital reality and now he wants to subvert the “hive mind,” as the web world’s been called, before it engulfs us all, destroys political discourse, ...

Jaron Lanier was a pioneer of virtual reality. He sold a start-up to Google and helped Walmart, Fannie Mae, banks and hedge funds learn to use computerized information. He's now working on several ...

Jaron Lanier, 49, is many things — composer, performer, computer scientist, philosopher — but one thing he is not is a machine. His book You Are Not a Gadget, published this year, compels readers to ...

What is a person? -- Missing persons -- An apocalypse of self-abdication -- The noosphere is just another name for everyone's inner troll -- What will money be? -- Digital peasant chic -- The city is ...

LOS ANGELES - Jaron Lanier has a research job with Microsoft. He won't go into specifics, but it has something to do with imagining the future and asking questions. Lanier is a longtime Silicon Valley ...

In this video, visionary computer scientist, composer, and author Jaron Lanier discusses how Big Business Data colors Big Data’s role in the sciences. The talk was recorded at the June 20, 2013 dinner ...

The private event will mark the end of the third edition of Vaster Than Empires (VTE), a speculative storytelling retreat hosted by Berggruen’s Studio B and its Future Humans program. By Chris Gardner ...

Prelude : Hello, hero ; Terms -- pt. 1. First round : 1. Motivation: The problem in brief, Put up or shut up, Moore's Law changes the way people are valued, Essential but worthless, The beach at the ...