• 2010- Innovator In Residence, USC Annenberg
• 2009- Partner Architect, Microsoft
• 2006-2009 Scholar at Large, Microsoft Live Labs
• 2006- Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, CET, UC Berkeley
• 2004- Fellow, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley
• 2003-2005 Visiting Scientist, Silicon Graphics
• 2002-2004 Jones Center Fellow, Wharton School, UPenn
• 2002- Visiting Faculty, Dartmouth College (Surgical Simulation And Tele-Medicine)
• 1999-2002 Chief Scientist, Eyematic Interfaces (IP and most of team now at Google)
• 1997-2001 Chief Scientist, Advanced Network And Services (Parent organization at the time of the Engineering Office Of Internet2)
• 1997-2000 Lead Scientist, National Tele-Immersion Initiative (1st Tele-I Implementation)
• 1997-2001 Visiting Scholar, Columbia University
• 1996-2001 Visiting Artist, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University
• 1984-1990 CEO, VPL Research (1st Multiperson VR And First Commercial VR Products)
• 1983-1984 Researcher, Atari Labs
• 1980-1983 Independent Video Game Developer
• 1979-1980 Student Researcher On NSF-Funded Project On Digital Graphical Simulations For Learning At New Mexico State University
• 1974-1978 Independent goat milk and cheese provider

Criticism of any single (simple) paradigm on knowledge approach

• any attempt to create one final authoritative bottleneck which channels the knowledge onto society is wrong, regardless whether it is a Wikipedia or any algorithmically created system producing meta informations,
• sterile style of wiki writing is undesirable because:
• it removes the touch with the real author of original information, it filters the subtlety of his opinions, essential information (e.g. incl. graphical context of original sources) is lost,
• it creates the false sense of authority behind the information,
• collective authorship tends to produce or align to mainstream or organizational beliefs,
• he worries that collectively created works may be manipulated behind the scene by anonymous groups of editors who bear no visible responsibility,
• and that this kind of activity might create future totalitarian systems as these are basically grounded on misbehaved collectives which oppress individuals.

I wonder if some aspect of human nature evolved in the context of competing packs. We might be genetically wired to be vulnerable to the lure of the mob.

What's to stop an online mass of anonymous but connected people from suddenly turning into a mean mob, just like masses of people have time and time again in the history of every human culture? It's amazing that details in the design of online software can bring out such varied potentials in human behavior. It's time to think about that power on a moral basis.

One-Half of a Manifesto

• Carnegie Mellon University's Watson award in 2001
• finalist for the first Edge of Computation Award in 2005.
• honorary doctorate from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2006
• IEEE Virtual Reality Career Award in 2009.
• named one of TIME's 100 most influential people in 2010 (nominated by Microsoft VP Dan Reed).

Western Classical music

• Instruments of Change (1994), POINT Music/Philips/PolyGram Records

Video games

• Moondust (C64, 1983)
• Alien Garden (Atari 800, 1982)

Significant papers

• "One Half of a Manifesto", Edge, 11.11.00
• "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism", Edge, 5.30.06
• "Beware the Online Collective", Edge, 12.25.06

Books

• Information Is an Alienated Experience, Basic Books, 2006. ISBN 0-465-03282-6
• You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, ISBN 978-1846143410

Speeches

• 'Finding Humanity in the Interface: Capacity Atrophy or Augmentation?' A debate between Jaron Lanier and Will Wright from the Accelerating Change 2004 conference.
• Video of Jaron Lanier speaking at a Film Festival
• Video of Jaron Lanier's "McLuhan Ramp" Lecture
• Video of Jaron Lanier with Neal Stephenson, Neil Gershenfeld, Raymond Laflamme, and Tara Hunt, on The Agenda with Steve Paikin at the Quantum to Cosmos festival.
• Video of panel discussion with Jaron Lanier, Neal Stephenson and Lee Smolin, "Seeing Science Through Fiction" at the Quantum to Cosmos festival
• Podcast of Science in the Pub panel discussion with Jaron Lanier, Hod Lipson, Wilson da Silva and Eliezer Yudkowsky: "So We're All Gonna be Robots, Now?"
• Video of Jaron Lanier giving a talk titled: 'Staying Human in a Tech-Driven World' at Zócalo public square, on January 28, 2010
• Audio of Jaron Lanier speaking at the London School of Economics

Interviews

• Interview with Jaron Lanier on Music
• Coding from Scratch: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier, Part 1
• The Future of Virtual Reality: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier, Part 2
• Interview by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Counterpoint program; Lanier strongly criticises both Wikipedia and singularitarianism
• A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
• "You Are Not a Gadget" author Jaron Lanier on Media Matters with Bob McChesney, Sunday, March 28, 2010, hosted by Robert W. McChesney.