Jaron Lanier Audio & Video

If human beings successfully create self-aware machines, will the positive social benefits outweigh the potential dangers we see in many blockbuster Hollywood movies?

Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time.

Host Harry Kreisler welcomes computer scientist Jaron Lanier.

In this improvised talk at the Harvard Book Store, computer scientist Jaron Lanier discusses some of the ideas in his first book You Are Not a Gadget: Being Human in an Age of Technology.

Who Owns the Future? is a visionary reckoning with the effects network technologies have had on our economy....

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now is a timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer.

Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defense of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture....

Jaron Lanier is a technology inventor and philosopher who has been dubbed the prophet of the digital age. He coined the phrases 'Virtual Reality' and 'digital Maoism'.