Jaron Lanier

– 7 June 2022 – The biggest and most politically influential algorithm-based tech platforms (Facebook, Google, Twitter, Youtube, etc) have implemented measures designed to reduce things such as hate speech, “fake news”, bot-driven influence campaigns, etc — often at the expense of much criticism, since these measures, in many cases, seem heavy-handed and counterproductive. …

Metadream What if I tell you that the perfect Metaverse existed from the last 300.000 years?. That, Has the most advanced high-quality graphics. Has a 360 degrees feedback. It’s so real you can smell, feel texture, everything. Let you train, and your body and brain will remember back in reality what…

Written in a lucid conversational style, the essential argument made by Jaron Lanier is that smartphones carry ramifications that could spell disaster for the human species. Smartphones are an invention that we take for granted. But we should remember how recent this invention is. Since we carry around this device…

Image credit: Marta de la Figuera This post is part of The Future of Coordinated Thinking: Series Index I argue that anyone who cares about human flourishing should concern themselves with Internet freedom, interoperability and ideisomorphism; I make this claim because the ethical character of the Internet appears to be…

Review & summary of Jaron Lanier’s 2018 book on why we should be quitting social media in its current form — Last year, when watching The Social Dilemma, one of the interviewees stood out to me amongst the other, more typical big tech insiders. …

Our online presence has increasingly become a large part of who a lot of us are and our data is our online presence, therefore our data is our identity. …

What I’ve been reading this week… Trail Dog. (4 mins) www.youtube.com Beautifully shot in the French mountains, this is a short film about living with purpose, joy and freedom. Or trail running with a dog, if you want to look at it another way. Why social media is rotting our brains. …