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Jaron Zepel Lanier (/ˈdʒeɪrɪn lɪˈnɪər/, born May 3, 1960) is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music. Considered a founding father 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 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 Microsoft, and from 2009 forward he works at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist.

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As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.

21St, Commonplace, Information, Powerful, Technology

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

Feet, Rise, Swallows, Towns, Tree, Whole

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

Enough, Friends, Jobs, Look, Looks, Old Friends

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living. ' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.

Advice, Choose, Giving, Progress, Reverse, Way

There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They always had exaggerated canine teeth and a certain sort of expression. That led to speculation about whether at an earlier stage in the human experience we were hunted by some sort of carnivore.

Enemy, Expression, Looked, People, Sort

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

Failing, Medicine, Money, Software, Spend, Things

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

Constructive, Criticism, Easier

Humans change themselves through technology.

Change, Humans, Technology

The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.

Cancer, Columnist, Humans, Medical, New York, Robots

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

Destruction, Different, Pursue, Violence, Wickedness

The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.

Html, Problem, Responsibility, Simple, Take, Whatsoever

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

Development, Game, Games, Sides, Technology

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

Clouds, Data, Ignorance, Irrelevance, Personal

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.

Advertisers, Brain, Bring, Games, Ideas, New Experiences

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

Consequence, Identity, People, Pseudonyms

Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences it in a useful way.

Fantasy, Information, Person, Tool, Tools, Way

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

Adventure, America, American, Road, Samuel, Self

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

Consciousness, Existence, Spirituality, Suicide

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

Economically, Sustainable, Thinking, Writing, Writing And Thinking

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

Technology, Thinking, New Experiences, Approach, Lead

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