Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier is an artist, musician, inventor, virtual reality developer, film director, public speaker, and member of the Global Business Network.
Jaron is probably best known for coining the term "Virtual Reality" in the early 1980's. At that time, he founded VPL Research, the first company to sell VR products.
Jaron taught at several computer science departments of universities around the country, including Columbia, Dartmouth, and Yale. He recently was the lead scientist for the National Tele-Immersion Initiative, an effort devoted to utilizing computer technology to give people (whom are separated by great distances) the illusion that they are physically together. Amazingly, Jaron holds no academic degrees.
Works in progress
Technology and the Future of the Human Soul
Books
- Voices from the Edge: Conversations With Jerry Garcia, Ram Dass, Annie Sprinkle, Matthew Fox, Jaron Lanier, & Others— by David Jay Brown, Rebecca McClen Novick
- Artificial Stupidity : Virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier says computers are too dumb to take over the world. A Salon.com Feature story [HTML] by Damien Cave (Author) Publisher: Salon.com, ISBN B00005NGP0
- Info Is an Alienated Expense Basic Books (October 2003) ISBN 0465032826
Video
- Synthetic Pleasures (1996)—VHS English
Classical music
- Instruments of Change
External links
- Jaron Lanier's Homepage (http://www.advanced.org/jaron/)
- Edge: JARON LANIER (http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/lanier.html)