Dawn of the new everything

encounters with reality and virtual reality

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Jaron Lanier: Dawn of the new everything (Hardcover, 2017, Henry Holt and Company)

xv, 351 sivua : kuvitettu ; 25 cm, 351 pages

English language

Published 2017 by Henry Holt and Company.

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"Through a mesmerizing look back over his life in technology, Jaron Lanier, the scientist who is said to have either coined or popularized the term virtual reality, exposes VR's ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species and gives readers a new perspective on how the brain and body connect to the world. An inventive blend of autobiography, science writing, philosophy, and advice, Dawn of the New Everything tells the wild story of Lanier's personal and professional life as a scientist. Raised in the UFO territory of New Mexico, Jaron lived with his father in a geodesic dome they built together in the desert after the sudden death of his mother. Attending college at age fourteen, Lanier was immediately hooked on computers, and from then on his life became entwined with technology. He forged an unconventional career path that eventually led him to the early frontier days of …

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Subjects

  • Lanier, Jaron.
  • Computer scientists United States Biography.
  • Virtual reality Philosophy.
  • Virtual reality Social aspects.
  • virtuaalimaailma.
  • tietotekniikka.
  • filosofia.
  • virtuell värld.
  • informationsteknik.
  • filosofi.