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Jaron Lanier

March 2023

  • Jaron Lanier at his home in Santa Cruz, California.

    Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’

    The godfather of virtual reality has worked beside the web’s visionaries and power-brokers – but likes nothing more than to show the flaws of technology. He discusses how we can make AI work for us, how the internet takes away choice – and why he would ban TikTok

November 2022

  • Jaron Lanier photographed at home in Berkeley California.

    ‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity

    The American computer scientist, who coined the term ‘virtual reality,’ cautions against online ‘psychological operatives’

May 2018

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    Book of the day
    Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier – review

    Lanier was there for the creation of the internet and is convinced that social media is toxic, making us sadder, angrier and more isolated

December 2017

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    Critical eye
    Reviews roundup: The Odyssey; Dawn of the New Everything; Artemis

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    Book of the day
    Dawn of the New Everything by Jaron Lanier review – virtual reality patter

November 2017

  • Man in VR headset

    Book of the day
    Dawn of the New Everything by Jaron Lanier review – memoirs of a tech visionary

  • Jaron lanier photographed at home in Berkeley , California for the Observer New Review

    Jaron Lanier: ‘The solution is to double down on being human’

March 2013

  • Jaron Lanier at home

    Science Weekly
    Science Weekly podcast: Jaron Lanier on Who Owns The Future?

    A pioneer of virtual reality technology and the open web, Jaron Lanier discusses why power is held by those with the biggest computers and best scientists

  • Jaron Lanier at home

    Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel – interview

    Jaron Lanier is one of the most respected voices in tech. Recently he has been warning of the dangers inherent in the internet's design. John Naughton met him
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    Critical eye
    Book reviews roundup: The Childhood of Jesus, Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters, and Who Owns the Future?

    Books reviews roundup: What the critics thought of The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee, Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters by Jane Dunn and Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier

February 2013

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    Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier – review

    Laurence Scott glimpses a brave new world in which we are all paid for the information we generate

February 2011

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    You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier – review

    Computer scientist Jaron Lanier thinks the web has taken a wicked turn for the worse and wants us to do something about it, writes Jessica Holland

February 2010

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    Tech Weekly
    Tech Weekly: San Francisco's tech projects saving the developing world

  • My bright idea
    My bright idea: Jaron Lanier

  • My bright idea
    Jaron Lanier talks about the failure of web 2.0 with Aleks Krotoski

  • Steven Poole's non-fiction choice
    You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier, Privacy byRaymond Wacks and Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn

May 2006

  • Technology blog
    Jaron Lanier on the stupidity of the hive mind

    Jaron Lanier, who more or less invented virtual reality in the 1980s (making me a lifelong Lanier fan), has published a fascinating Edge essay on Digital Maosim: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism.

December 2001

  • The virtual visionary

    A young geek, he went to university at 14. He dropped out to work as a musician but made his name as a pioneer of virtual reality. A key philosopher of the computer age, he also sounds a warning note about the limits of technology. Oliver Burkeman reports

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