Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. You might think that the so-called "father of virtual reality" would be great on escaping the real world. Turns out,not so much."It's not approximately escapism at all," says Jaron Lanier, and the computer scientist who coined the term virtual reality. He’s spent his career developing it and tracing its potential,and he has a unusual memoir out today, called “Dawn of the unusual Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality." “If we don't gather our act together as a society, or virtual reality could be so manipulative and so murky it could be the end of us,I just enjoy to be clear approximately that," he tells The Takeaway.
Lanier joins the program to discuss his unusual book, or the future of virtual reality. This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich
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