Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier on his book "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now." 

Jaron Lanier, an interdisciplinary scientist at Microsoft, joins us to discuss his book "Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality."

"If we don't get our act together as a society, virtual reality could be so manipulative and so dark it could be the end of us," says Jaron Lanier, the man who helped invent VR.

Can two 'experts at the internet' agree on what is scary out there on the web and what isn't?

Jaron Lanier, the father of virtual reality and one of the most influential thinkers of our time, examines the effects network technologies have had on our economy. In his new book Who Owns the Future? he asserts that the rise of digital networks led our economy into recession and decimated the middle class. He looks at why and charts the path toward a new information economy that will stabilize the middle class and allow it to grow.

Jaron Lanier, the father of virtual reality and one of the most influential thinkers of our time, examines the effects network technologies have had on our economy. In his new book Who Owns the Future? he asserts that the rise of digital networks led our economy into recession and decimated the middle class. He looks at why and charts the path toward a new information economy that will stabilize the middle class and allow it to grow.

Jaron Lanier is a pioneering computer scientist, a creator of virtual reality, a musician, and the author of You Are Not a Gadget, which takes a skeptical view of the role we have gi...

Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, philosopher, and author of the manifesto You Are Not A Gadget. “The thing about information is that it can hypnotize you. It can make you think ...

Jaron Lanier warns that just because we’ve collected a lot of information, doesn’t mean that we know how to use it. “We can create this illusion that these giant financial transacti...

Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, philosopher, and author of the manifesto You Are Not a Gadget. He tells Kurt how our privacy has changed in recent years thanks to social networks and smart phone technology.

Jaron Lanier shares his predictions with Kurt about the direction our surveillance culture is headed.

The director of Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley, had to pay $50,000 to use old songs in her animation movie. She then put the movie online for free and turned herself into a free-culture activist. Composer Jaron Lanier was a digital pioneer in the '90s, but in his new ...

Jaron Lanier has been a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s. He talks about the ways the World Wide has changed commerce and culture in good ways and bad. In his book You Are Not a Gadget, he looks at the Web’s creation and structure and the technical and ...