“The idea of openness has been reversed,” says Lanier two days before the award of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. “We need a more intelligent approach.”
openness, that is for the U.S. computer scientist, especially the willing transfer of personal data to Internet services such as Google and Facebook. Thus, the wealth in the hands of a few entrepreneurs will focus, while the broad middle of society go out empty.
bookstores in transition
“We need a new kind of balance,” says Lanier at the Frankfurt Book Fair. In his book, “Who is the future?” He proposes a new model of the Internet economy, that aims to reward the private copyright information.
The skeptical tones Lanier fit the mood of the book trade and publishing industry, which is still the middle of restructuring and has long sought to evade the digitization. No, he was not a pessimist says the 54-year-old who stays true to his Rastafarian mane its roots in the early scene of geeks.
A pessimist is one who abandoned work on a change in the conditions have. He wanted to work out to solve the most complicated puzzle to which the world got involved with the digitization.
Lanier sat with 13 in mathematics lectures
A native New Yorker advocates gradual, pragmatic changes a. Faith in the big success he had lost. There are no simple solutions, as his friend John Perry Barlow, former lyricist of the Grateful Dead, 1996′ve longed for with his “Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace”. Barlow had then summoned “a civilization of the Mind” on the Internet: “May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have produced!”
Now is not the Internet visionary, but the Mahner appreciated, because he strongly hints loud appreciation for the Peace Prize of the dangers, “threaten our open society, where being deprived of the power of design and when people are reduced despite a gain of diversity and freedom, to digital categories”. ‘ / p>
Research and teaching in New York
Lanier pulled it already with 13 years to mathematics lectures at the university. Ten years later, he worked at the laboratory of computer company Atari and worked there, among other things with a data glove to interact with virtual reality – a concept whose prevalence is attributed to Lanier. The immersion in digital worlds occupied him later at Silicon Graphics, before he turned away from work for a company and started doing research at Columbia University in New York and teach.
he will leave the software development now the younger ones, he says in Frankfurt, but also like tinkering between writing his now three books in one way or another technical gadget. Moreover Lanier plays a lot of music, composed and collected rare instruments.
A flute as the beginning of digital technology
The hype surrounding the award ceremony is Lanier visibly uncomfortable. So he takes on the Book Fair first an ancient wooden flute from Laos forth, a khaen, and improvised on it a sad way. With its two 16 tubes for different tones this flute the onset of digital technology is said Lanier. “This is also a reason why I love her so.”
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