Jaron Lanier is an extraordinary individual. He is the father of virtual reality, a forceful pundit for "software humanism", an accomplished musician, a philospher and an Partner Architect at Microsoft working on cloud computing problems in the Extreme Computing group. Jaron was a Scholar at Large for three years, providing valuable technical input to the Live Labs folks. Jaron was a technical consultant for the wildly popular science fiction film, Minority Report(which of course involved…
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