{"id":1743,"date":"2014-06-01T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2014-06-01T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T00:56:02","slug":"the-internet-and-the-future-with-jaron-lanier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/06\/the-internet-and-the-future-with-jaron-lanier.html","title":{"rendered":"The Internet and the Future with Jaron Lanier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;00XQfisENTTZHblrkmxnirfcWjtcoQHV&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>THE technologist and Internet skeptic Jaron Lanier is someone I speak to every few months whether I need to or not &#8212; he&#8217;s got some of the sharpest sense of how digital technology has reshaped life for the creative class and the larger middle class it sits inside. It helps that he&#8217;s also an experimental\/classical musician who collects tons of weird old instruments. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/futureukuscombopb-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"futureukuscombopb\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/futureukuscombopb-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/futureukuscombopb.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other day we spoke about Amazon, Kickstarter, income inequality, and last year&#8217;s hit book, Who Owns the Future?, recently out in paperback. That Salon Q+A is <a title=\"ST on Lanier -- second Salon interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/06\/01\/jaron_lanier_on_internet_and_middle_class_we_have_screwed_things_up\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;00XQfisENTTZHblrkmxnirfcWjtcoQHV&#8221;] THE technologist and Internet skeptic Jaron Lanier is someone I speak to every few months whether I need to or not &#8212; he&#8217;s got some of the sharpest sense of how digital technology has reshaped life for the creative class and the larger middle class it sits inside. It helps that he&#8217;s also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[612,39,32,611,58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-amazon","7":"category-creative-class","8":"category-internet","9":"category-jaron-lanier","10":"category-music","11":"entry","12":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}