Epstein Secrets

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PROFILES THE VISIONARY A digital pioneer questions what technology has wrought. BY JENNIFER KAHN ("N ne day in June, Jaron Lanier was V lounging barefoot in the living room of his house in the Berkeley hills. Stretch- ing back on a wom sofa, he began musing about the connect

t objects. But I came by it honestly." Lanier's mother and father belonged to a circle of artists in Greenwich Village, but they moved soon after Jaron was born— on May 3,1960—first to Colorado, and then to a spot near El Paso, Texas, on the border with Mexico. The area was deso- late and impoveris

th the panel's Democrat, Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, who said she expected to move "rather quickly" o

ange the subject, A.D.D.-style, dismiss an observation with an adolescent wisecrack," Mr. Pinker said. Another scientist cultivated by Mr. Epstein, Jaron Lanier, a prolific author who is a founding father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend t

th the panel's Democrat, Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, who said she expected to move "rather quickly" o

ange the subject, A.D.D.-style, dismiss an observation with an adolescent wisecrack," Mr. Pinker said. Another scientist cultivated by Mr. Epstein, Jaron Lanier, a prolific author who is a founding father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend t

th the panel's Democrat, Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, who said she expected to move "rather quickly" o

ange the subject, A.D.D.-style, dismiss an observation with an adolescent wisecrack," Mr. Pinker said. Another scientist cultivated by Mr. Epstein, Jaron Lanier, a prolific author who is a founding father of virtual reality, said that Mr. Epstein's ideas did not amount to science, in that they did not lend t