Podcasts

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Jaron Lanier: Father of Virtual Reality, Renaissance man
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Jaron Lanier: Why You Should Delete Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
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Jaron Lanier: Why You Should Unplug from Social Media for Good
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Conversation with Jaron Lanier | Digital Humanism
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Articles

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The Evil Way that Social Media Messes with Your Mental Health

An interview with Jaron Lanier, author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, on why Instagram and Twitter suck so bad. (By Benjy Hansen-Bundy October 18, 2018)

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His ideas for the future of profiting from your own data

Lanier shares his thoughts on how the manipulation economy has reshaped the world we live in and why we should be controlling and profiting from our own data.

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If you can quit social media, but don’t, then you’re part of the problem

“You’re not doing anything to free those who are more trapped. You’re only enslaving them more by entrenching the system."

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Why social media has taken over your life & you need to sign off now

Jaron Lanier says social media is turning us into highly manipulable addicts. The only solution is for users to pay—and own their own data. ( By Mike Doherty July 20, 2018)

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Interview conducted by Noah Kulwin
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Interview by Paul Solman
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The Conscience of Silicon Valley
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Videos