Who is Jaron Lanier
Jaron Zepel Lanier (, born May 3, 1960) is an American computer scientist, visual artist, computer philosophy writer, technologist, futurist, and composer of contemporary classical music. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. In 2006 he began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 has worked at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist.Lanier has composed contemporary classical music and is a collector of rare instruments (of which he owns one to two thousand); his acoustic album, In...Read Full Biography of Jaron Lanier
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- Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
- What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
- My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
- Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.
- Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
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Iambenstephens: tech guru jaron lanier: ‘the danger isn’t that ai destroys us. it’s that it drives us insane’Cinediaz: some real talk about ai. “it’s like saying a car can go faster than a human runner. of course it can, and yet we don’t say that the car has become a better runner.”
Takingouttrash7: “from my perspective,” he says, “the danger isn’t that a new alien entity will speak through our technology and take over and destroy us. to me the danger is that we’ll use our technology to become mutually unintelligible or to become insane if you like,
Demsdemo: auchtung! auchtung! auchtung! who say weirdos are never logical sensible and make profound statements where i agree with them & strpongely suggest you listen? regarding your compterized telephone calls on steroids & the corpporate government state?
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