Jaron Lanier articles

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  Feature

  'Who Owns The Future?' Jaron Lanier thinks Google and the government should pay for your data

  By R. U. Sirius on May 23, 2013 01:00 pm + 51 comments

  In Who Owns the Future?, Jaron Lanier, the computer scientist and musician who became the face of Continue reading…

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  Feature

  Information wants to be free, but the world isn't ready

  By R. U. Sirius on January 23, 2013 10:05 am + 153 comments

  Every few years, one of my friends from the early days of digital enthusiasm turns up on the Continue reading…

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  Article

  Why author and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier rejected the modern web

  By Adi Robertson on December 27, 2012 05:33 pm + 34 comments

  Computer scientist Jaron Lanier was an early futurist and virtual reality proponent in the 1980s, Continue reading…

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  Article

  10 years later, looking back at how 'Minority Report' predicted the future

  By Joshua Kopstein on June 24, 2012 05:19 am + 58 comments

  In the late 90s, when faced with the task of turning Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report into a Continue reading…