Convenience always costs
It’s time for you to meet Jaron Lanier, computer scientist and virtual reality pioneer . Several of Lanier’s ideas sit at the very centre of this project’s philosophy; these will be explored in-depth later. Since the publication of his first two books You Are Not A Gadget and Who Owns The Future? Lanier is often asked to explain and expand on his criticism of social media sites. 1 Given Facebook’s most recent presence in the press, it made sense for Lanier to speak out about the company. Speaking to CNBC in the US, he encouraged support for those leaving Facebook and reassured us that there is life after the social network: “We’re not citizens of Facebook, we have no vote on Facebook, it’s not a democracy and this process is not a way we can design the future, we can’t rely on this single company to invent our digital future in such a big way. When people delete, it’s not so much that they’re effective protesters, it’s that they’re inventing what life can be like without F