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 ...

Jaron Lanier was one of the creators of our current digital reality and now he wants to subvert the web before it engulfs us all. Robert Holmgren I couldn’t help thinking of John Le Carré’s spy novels ...

We’ve been waiting to see what some true Hollywood mainstays can do with artificial intelligence in filmmaking, and announced today is a project that has the potential to break through into the ...

Before attempting to answer the monumental question posed by the title of this book, perhaps it would be helpful to first clarify who’s doing the asking. Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier is a ...

Alternating between personal memoir and the history of virtual reality technology leading up to take, computer scientist Lanier (Who Owns the Future?) transports readers to the experimental, obsessive ...

Natasha Lyonne is set to make her feature directorial debut — with a big assist from artificial intelligence. The “Poker Face” star is teaming up with Brit Marling and renowned computer scientist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...