What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
The digital pioneer and visionary behind virtual reality
has turned against the very culture he helped create
Smithsonian excerpt
The connection Lanier makes between
techno-utopianism,
the rise of the machines
and the Great Recession
is an audacious one.
Lanier is suggesting
we are outsourcing ourselves
into insignificant advertising-fodder.
Nanobytes of Big Data that diminish
our personhood,
our dignity.
He may be the first
Silicon populist.