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Conversations with History: Jaron Lanier

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Host Harry Kreisler welcomes computer scientist Jaron Lanier. Lanier talks about his work in computer science and his work as a composer and student of music. He reflects on the implications of technology for culture and offers his assessment of how far the revolution in communications will go. Series: "Conversations with History" [3/2006] [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 11245]

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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).

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

  • 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?

  • @jbat100 And hilarious :)

  • @jbat100 The song at the beginning I like!

  • @jaredrose2 You mean the awesome intro!

  • I like the music at the beginning!

  • One of the more important visionaries of our age.

  • was the teacher in beavis and butthead inspired by him?

  • whats with the creepy intro?

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