Jaron Lanier

Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, futurist, and composer. 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.

Across 1 conversation, Jaron Lanier ranges across social media, panpsychism, data dignity. Jaron Lanier argues that the transition from virtual to physical reality is more valuable than the simulation itself. Social media algorithms exploit primal emotional responses, leading to negative behavioral changes in users.

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