jaron lanier

In Silicon Valley, some of the brightest minds believe a universal basic income (UBI) that guarantees people unrestricted cash payments will help them to survive and thrive as advanced technologies…

We all contribute to AI — should we get paid for that?

Facebook’s plan for our post-web future

6:00 am PDT • September 29, 2019

Let us connect some dots. Five years ago, Facebook acquired VR pioneers Oculus for $2 billion. This week, it snapped up neural-interface pioneers CTRL-Labs for somewhere north of $500 million,…

Facebook’s plan for our post-web future