Lanier was one of the creators of our current digital reality and now he wants to subvert the “hive mind,” as the web world’s been called, before it engulfs us all, destroys political discourse, ...

Jaron Lanier with his khene outside the KCRW studio. For best-selling author Jaron Lanier, society’s dependence on digital networks kindled the economic recession and is responsible for the declining ...

Jaron Lanier, 49, is many things — composer, performer, computer scientist, philosopher — but one thing he is not is a machine. His book You Are Not a Gadget, published this year, compels readers to ...

What is a person? -- Missing persons -- An apocalypse of self-abdication -- The noosphere is just another name for everyone's inner troll -- What will money be? -- Digital peasant chic -- The city is ...

LOS ANGELES - Jaron Lanier has a research job with Microsoft. He won't go into specifics, but it has something to do with imagining the future and asking questions. Lanier is a longtime Silicon Valley ...

The private event will mark the end of the third edition of Vaster Than Empires (VTE), a speculative storytelling retreat hosted by Berggruen’s Studio B and its Future Humans program. By Chris Gardner ...

Jaron Lanier and Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, come together at Gray Area for an evening of film, conversation, and live performance. The program includes a screening of ¡Que viva México! (1930), by ...