Jaron Lanier

January 18th, 2012 New York Times article “The False Ideals of the Web”, Jaron Lanier attempts to take a very difficult issue – one that many view in terms of black or white – and find some middle ground. Unfortunately, what he ends up doing in the article is create an either/or situation, rather than find any middle ground. In the end we are left in the same situation that we started with. In the first paragraph, Jaron appeals to the pathos of the reader; he assumes that the reader is of the

Book Synopsis You are not a Gadget is a book written by Jaron Lanier, published by First Vintage Books Edition, February 2011 with an ISBN of: 978-0-307-38997-8. Jaron Lanier is considered to be the man behind the invention of virtual reality technology. In his early years he studied music and became a programmer while performing as a musician. He was one of the first to predict that the digital media movement would bring revolutionary changes to the world culture and would heavily influence

increased the ease at which someone can become anonymous. In recent discussions of anonymity on the internet, a controversial issue has been whether or not anonymity is dangerous to society. On one hand, individuals like Jaron Lanier disagree with the idea of anonymity. Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget, believes that anonymity only brings out the worst in people. Because anonymity allows users to exist without proving their identity, it makes it near impossible to tell a troll from a real

VR Essay 2. Virtual Reality as Lanier envisioned it has not eventuated, yet the desires he articulated live on. Discuss. To discuss Lanier’s keen views and anticipations regarding Virtual Reality back in the mid 1980s, it would be useful to first cover exactly how far Virtual Reality has progressed up until today. This essay will begin by discussing the history of Virtual Reality and the usage trends. That discussion will then be used to preface a discussion about Lanier’s views that were expressed

It was said that she was the best poet of her time and during her career. Aemelia Lanyer sought out to prove just that. Aemelia was a strong minded woman who stood for equality. She stressed her need for woman to be heard. Using her work for the women of many generations, she proved that they were just as important to society as men. Aemelia inspired women to play their roles in society. She was an inspiration to some, an alter ego to others, and a hero to many. She was strong, bold, and outspoken

Tri-State Water War Nathan A. Smith Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Thesis: Georgia should be able to continue their withdrawals from Lake Lanier and the water basins because of their water supply needs for irrigating its crops in the south, flood control, and sustaining its rapidly growing population in the metro Atlanta area. Epa, U. (2013). Georgia: Upper Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, (2). Retrieved December 7, 2014, from

Water plays a vital role in everyday life, from quenching your thirst on a hot summer day, to being one of the main ingredient of life in all aspects on earth. Recently, Georgia has been under a severe water drought. Lake Lanier in Georgia, which is a major supply of drinking water to its state, and neighboring states Alabama, and Florida; has been at its lowest in years. Georgia’s drought is certainly due to the lack of precipitation; therefore, creating water levels to decline more rapidly as time

The Excerpt from You Are Not a Gadget was written by Jaron Lanier and published in the 2010 in New York by Vintage Books. The author Jaron Lanier writes the excerpt raising awareness to how technology changes people and how technology is helping the spread of fragmentary among the people of the world. In the Excerpt Lanier is investigating the affects technology has on society. Lanier is also investigating how communication and the perception of reality are being altered by the technology. His argument

In the article “The Serfdom of Crowds” by Jaron Lanier, the author talks about what the internet and computer technology in general are doing to today’s society. Lanier seems pretty qualified to talk about computer related things. He is a computer scientist from New York and writes many columns similar to this one in Harper’s magazine. One of the things he is most famous for is coining the phrase “virtual reality”. He expresses

In source one, the cartoonist shows the large pay gap between those who embrace collectivism and those who are more for individualism. The classical liberal is shown to be more economically successful than the modern liberal. Although each person in the collective of teachers receives one two-hundredth of what the hockey player is paid in a year, they appear to be happy and more upright than the hockey player. On the other hand, the hockey player is depicted as an ‘all about me’ individual who is