Jaron Zepel Lanier With, a wish of ‘living as obscuring as possible’ Lanier’s parents, Jewish survivors of a concentration camp in Austria, and a pogrom in Ukraine, fled to the U.S. border with Lanier still a kid. His mother’s death, in a car accident, not only left huge void in his life, but forced father-son duo to relocate to Mesilla, where they lived in a tent. Lanier was nine years old then. In the meantime, the duo kept building a house combined with multiple interconnected geodesic dome. The seven years which took to complete the house named ‘Earth Station Lanier’, helped Lanier develop a taste for creating weird and wonderful environments that went a long way in shaping-up his life.
Throughout his Silicon Valley years, the journey which started in the1970s when he was a teenager, he had donned many hats from a computer scientist, visual artist, computer philosophy writer, technologist, futurist and as....
