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Jaron Lanier on the Future of the Internet and Work
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Jaron Lanier on the Future of the Internet and Work

Jaron Lanier and Meike Laaff
Deutschlandradio, 2019
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Technologist Jaron Lanier, a longtime Silicon Valley insider, is an outspoken critic of many of the industry’s choices – particularly, its data-driven advertising model. In this well-run interview with German radio host Meike Laaff, Lanier emphasizes that while he’s a fan of big tech (he’s currently employed at Microsoft), the business model must change. The interview captures the intellectual, sometimes radical Lanier in a down-to-earth, pithy moment. 

Take-Aways

  • Silicon Valley’s business model – offering tech users a “free” service in order to commodify their data and consumer behavior – was the industry’s downfall.
  • The business model arose out of two contradictory beliefs in tech culture: that internet apps and tools should be free and that tech entrepreneurs were “idols” to worship.
  • The tech community’s insularity and homogeneous mind-set also underlie the problem. 

About the Podcast

Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist and a pioneer in the field of virtual reality. Meike Laaff is a reporter for Breitband – a German radio program about media and digital culture, for which she did this interview. 

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