Conversations with History: Jaron Lanier

[asifthroughsleep]

hasn't yet worked because no one has yet defined the mechanism that allows for symbolic translation and interpretation, and therefore one cannot understand the interaction between the human and his objects of focus (reality).

[urizen1]

the intro music is amazing. retro in the best way.

[LegoAddiction]

I love he speaks about micro$oft word and how it 'guesses' what you want to do, in the context of a programmer having a cultural effect on the user.

That's why I'm a fan of open source, well written programs. Because if a machine does something that you don't want it to do, you should be able to make the machine conform to you, you shouldn't have to conform to the machine.

Politically, that idea is what the US was originally designed around. Is the US still open source?

[CassetteMaster]

I like the music at the beginning!

[AdamHeilbrun]

One of the more important visionaries of our age.

[assholester]

was the teacher in beavis and butthead inspired by him?

[jaredrose2]

whats with the creepy intro?

[CassetteMaster]

@jaredrose2 You mean the awesome intro!

[miguelcarvalho2008]

"If I'm a nutcase, I chose it. I celebrate my nuttyness and I hope others might join me in it."

Thanks, UC, for the Conversations with History series.

LM.

[BenNCM]

Harry Kriesler looks like he's on a rollercoaster.

[DrunkenPoetic]

He sounds like Michael Stipe.

[faunflynn]

I worked for this guy a long time ago. Didn't know he was this well known. Weird.

[Anamixandre]

21st century needs visionaries like him

[Reido2828]

But instead we get Ray Kurzweill taking up the mainstream telling us machines are going ot rule over us

[yellowvespa04]

Reido2828

By Ray Kurzweill you mean Bill Joy, Right? ;)

[Reido2828]

Bill Joy to but he is not involved as much in terms of the culture. Kurzweill is really basically telling us what humans should do and are forced to do as oppose to actually doing what is right for the species.

[INConcentration]

What ever happened to virtuality??? haha

[SonOfAsimov]

my name is jaron

[Domzdream]

What an interesting man. He's like a nerdy, hippy, guru, artistic type. Usually minds like these were glasses and bow ites. I'd love to have an indepth conversation with this guy.

[jbat100]

This is a good program, the theme tune is dreadful though...

[CassetteMaster]

@jbat100 The song at the beginning I like!

[tayloreh]

@jbat100 And hilarious :)

[trinitymike]

Hope he didn't write the intro...

[mem108]

What an amazing visionary, Jaron Lanier. Thank you for this.