We Need to Have an Honest Talk About Our Data

More than two decades ago, WIRED ran its first profile of VR pioneer and author Jaron Lanier. We wrote "Yea, though he has walked through the valley of silicon, he fears no evil. His music and his software comfort him, and having survived reasonably intact he can only revel in the exquisite wonder of it all." Since then, Lanier has been a fierce critic of Silicon Valley and a fierce critic of where technology has gone--and it always comes back to music and spirituality. We sat down with him at our WIRED 25 festival in October. It always comes down to music and spirituality.