Jaron Lanier

One of Silicon Valley's key early innovators, this digital prophet has been dubbed the 'father of virtual reality' and named as one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world. Neither a tech optimist nor a doom-monger, he is unique for always seeing the opportunities offered by technology as well as the dangers. He sounded an early warning about the perils of the internet - describing the tech giants as 'spy agencies' and 'lords of the clouds' for the way they reduce the value of humans to that of the data they provide. But he also proposed another, more imaginative way to use technology. A 'human-centered approach', he argues, 'leads to more interesting, more exotic, wilder, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

Seine Vorträge

Jaron Lanier challenges us to express our essential humanity via 21st century technology instead of disappearing in it. As he has either initiated or predicted many of the most dramatic recent developments in IT, his keynotes have the quality of a sneak preview of the future. The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology.

Sein Vortragsstil

Jaron Lanier is often described as "mesmerising" and "one of the best speakers we have ever heard". He brings humour and depth to his presentations and, on request, intersperses them with virtual reality music performances.

Sprachen

He presents in English.

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• High-Tech Unternehmen
• Technologien und deren soziale Auswirkungen
• Die Philosophie des Bewusstseins und der Information
• Internet-Politik
• Die Zukunft des Humanismus

• 2017
  Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
• 2013
  Who Owns the Future
• 2011
  You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
• 1999
  Information Is an Alienated Experience