promoting his book Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. He was a guest on the Radiolab podcast episode "The Cataclysm Sentence", released on 18 April 2020. Lanier was interviewed by Andrew Yang in the "Yang Speaks" podcast, episode entitled "Who owns your data? Jaron Lanier has the answer" on May 28, 2020. Lanier appeared on the Lex Fridman podcast on September 6, 2021 to talk about his views on AI, social media, VR and the future of humanity. He has had speaking engagments and presentations at Concordia University Wisconsin and University Temple United Methodist Church. Awards Jill Watson Festival Across the Arts Wats:on? 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 magazine's Time 100, one of the most influential thinkers in 2010 Honorary doctorate from Franklin and Marshall College in 2012 Awarded the Goldsmith Book Prize for best trade book in 2014 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2014 Works Western classical music Instruments of Change (1994), POINT Music/Philips/PolyGram Records Video games Alien Garden (Atari 800, 1982, with designer Bernie DeKoven) Moondust (C64, 1983) Books Information Is an Alienated Experience, Basic Books, 2006, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, Who Owns the Future?, San Jose : Simon & Schuster, UK : Allen Lane, 2013, Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2017, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2018, References Further reading (Smithsonian often changes the title of a print article when it is published online. This article is titled "What turned Jaron Lanier against the web?" online.) External links Video discussion with Lanier involving intelligence (and AI) with Eliezer Yudkowsky on Bloggingheads.tv 21st-century American scientists 21st-century American non-fiction writers American computer scientists Artificial intelligence researchers Virtual reality pioneers American consciousness researchers and theorists Contemporary classical music performers American multi-instrumentalists American classical composers 21st-century American composers 21st-century classical composers American film score composers American male film score composers Futurologists Wired (magazine) people Guzheng players Computer graphics researchers Silicon Graphics people Columbia University faculty Dartmouth College faculty University of California, Berkeley people Critics of Wikipedia Video game developers American transhumanists Internet