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Jaron Lanier is an American computer scientist, futurist, author and composer regarded as a founder of virtual reality. In 1985 he and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari to start VPL Research, the first company to sell VR headsets and wired data gloves. He went on to work on Internet2 applications in the late 1990s and was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and several universities before joining Microsoft in 2006; since 2009 he has been an Interdisciplinary Scientist at Microsoft Research. His books on technology and society include You Are Not a Gadget, Who Owns the Future? and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. In 2014 he received both the Goldsmith Book Prize and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and the IEEE gave him its Virtual Reality Career Award in 2009. Foreign Policy named him one of its top 100 public intellectuals in 2005, and Time put him on its Time 100 in 2010. A composer of contemporary classical music, he collects rare instruments by the thousand, recorded the acoustic album Instruments of Change and co-scored the documentary The Third Wave with Mario Grigorov.
- Born in New York City
- Notable work: You Are Not a Gadget, Who Owns the Future?
- Category: Speaker
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- Received the Time 100
- Published You Are Not a Gadget
- Received the Goldsmith Book Prize
- Received the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
- Published Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
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