Jaron Lanier
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican computer scientist, musician, and author
Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, futurist, and composer. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. , the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves.
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In their own words 10
Digital information is really just people in disguise.
Who owns the future? (2013)
I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.
John Brockman, Editor
The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence.
John Brockman, Editor
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Connected to Jaron 6
William GibsonAlso in Cyberpunk (1990)
Vernon ReidAlso in Cyberpunk (1990)
Timothy LearyAlso in Cyberpunk (1990)
David GrossmanAlso won Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
Carl Friedrich von WeizsäckerAlso won Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
Evgeny MorozovAlso won Goldsmith Book PrizeAbout this person
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.
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