Jaron Lanier

生年: May 03, 1960 – New York City, New York, United States

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Jaron Lanier is an American computer scientist, composer, and writer known for pioneering work in virtual reality and for critiquing the social and economic effects of digital platforms. His notable books include You Are Not a Gadget and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, which broadened public debate on technology ethics.

経歴と著者の歩み

Jaron Lanier’s career grew out of an unusually improvised early life. Born in New York City in 1960 and raised in southern New Mexico, he was the son of a mother who had survived the Holocaust and a father whose family had fled pogroms in Ukraine. After his mother died in a car crash when he was around ten, he and his father lived in tents for a period and later built a geodesic-dome home that he helped design. As a teenager, he persuaded New Mexico State University to let him take advanced classes, where mathematics led him toward programming. A first major turning point came with the 1983 game Moondust, then with Atari, and then with the founding of VPL Research in the mid-1980s, the company widely credited with bringing the first commercial virtual-reality products to market and with early work on avatars, shared virtual worlds, and applied VR such as surgical simulation. ((https://www.scu.edu/cas/convergence/jaron-lanier/))

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Information is alienated experience
-Digerati - Chapter 17
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Artificial Intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology
-One Half A Manifesto
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We should de-intoxicate ourselves from Moore's Law
-The Central Metaphor of Everything?
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The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring
-Digital Maoism
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My worry is that we're playing with fire
-Beware the Online Collective
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The use of networks can turn you from a local player in a larger system into your own global system
-The Local-Global Flip
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The idea that computers are people has a long and storied history
-The Myth Of AI
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It's this hope that has finally convinced me that I should perhaps start believing in everyday objects like cats and apples again
-Why Gordian Software Has Convinced Me to Believe in the Reality of Cats and Apples
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We have to accept that the people are more important than the machines, not as a matter of hope, but as a matter of fact
-Let’s Unmask the Great & Powerful Oz of Technology
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Humans don't sit there passively, but they adapt if it's in their interest to
-Big Data Commerce vs Big Data Science

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"Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist/musician/artist/writer, popularized the term “virtual reality,” in 1987"

The New Yorker

"Virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier says computers are too dumb to take over the world"

Salon

"Jaron Lanier created the virtual reality industry as we see it"

Howard Rheingold

"Jaron Lanier was one of the creators of our current digital reality and now he wants to subvert the web before it engulfs us all"

Smithsonian

"Jaron Lanier has written a book about virtual reality, a phrase he coined and a concept he did much to invent"

The Guardian

"Jaron Lanier is going to prove to be one of the most prominent, deep thinkers"

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"Technology pioneer Jaron Lanier delivered a blistering indictment of the ad-supported Internet model"

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