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Jaron Lanier

A pioneer in virtual reality, Jaron Lanier takes the stage for a conversation about the future of libraries and information. Lanier is the author of You Are Not A Gadget and most recently Who Owns The Future?.

In Who Owns the Future?, Lanier questions the effects network technologies have had on our economy and culture, arguing that the era of free information has come at a steep cost to our society. The rise of digital networks, he suggests, has led our economy into recession and decimated the middle class. To keep technology and a thirst for consumer data from dictating the direction of our future, we must entirely rethink how we obtain and exchange knowledge and information. As an institution fundamentally linked to the free exchange of knowledge and information, libraries play a unique role in Lanier’s vision for a better future. In conversation with Paul Holdengräber, Lanier explores questions about the ever-expanding grasp of the Internet and future of libraries.











When: Thu., Oct. 10, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Ave.
917-275-6975
Price: $25
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A pioneer in virtual reality, Jaron Lanier takes the stage for a conversation about the future of libraries and information. Lanier is the author of You Are Not A Gadget and most recently Who Owns The Future?.

In Who Owns the Future?, Lanier questions the effects network technologies have had on our economy and culture, arguing that the era of free information has come at a steep cost to our society. The rise of digital networks, he suggests, has led our economy into recession and decimated the middle class. To keep technology and a thirst for consumer data from dictating the direction of our future, we must entirely rethink how we obtain and exchange knowledge and information. As an institution fundamentally linked to the free exchange of knowledge and information, libraries play a unique role in Lanier’s vision for a better future. In conversation with Paul Holdengräber, Lanier explores questions about the ever-expanding grasp of the Internet and future of libraries.

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