Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier
Jaron Zepel Lanieris an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music. A pioneer in 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 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. From 2006 he began to work at...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth3 May 1960
CountryUnited States of America
I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.
Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.