‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of technology’s existential threat to humanity
JAron Lanier, the eminent American computer scientist, composer and artist, is no stranger to skepticism around social media, but his current interpretations of its effects are getting darker and his warnings more incisive. Lanier, a dreadlocked freethinker credited with coining the term “virtual reality,” has long sounded dire sirens about the dangers of a world …