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 ...

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, by Jaron Lanier (Knopf, 224 pp., 24.95) Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto is a provocative—and ultimately quite pessimistic—assessment of the ...

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. Robert Holmgren I couldn’t help thinking of John Le Carré’s spy novels ...

Before attempting to answer the monumental question posed by the title of this book, perhaps it would be helpful to first clarify who’s doing the asking. Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier is a ...

Alternating between personal memoir and the history of virtual reality technology leading up to take, computer scientist Lanier (Who Owns the Future?) transports readers to the experimental, obsessive ...