Warren Moore

Lanier's VR setup was made in the USA, in Redwood City. It had to be back then: trade w China wasn't open enough for cheap manufacturing.

"There's this other thing I read when I was 15... the work of Norbert Weiner." Author of The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (PDF link http://asounder.org/resources/weiner_humanuse.pdf …)

In 1992 Lanier speculated about software bots that would compete against each other and create absurd elections. My takeaway: Chatbots, VR, misinformation... none of these issues are new. Tech cos claiming "we couldn't have known" are just willfully ignorant.

"So, what machines have been around where people could spontaneously explore creation together... musical instruments." Damn, I wish @michaelhazani was here.

Jaron Lanier's favorite Social VR application is being developed by Andrea Won at Cornell Medical: a mixed reality pain mitigation experience. #womeninvr

Lanier on inclusion: "Every time I've worked on e team with diversity, aside from anything else, the tech got better."

I tried to ask Mr Lanier about headsets vs CAVE systems, but he was afraid of losing the crowd. I asked everyone: "Come on, there's CS majors here tonight, right?" "No." Whoops.