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I've recently begun cleaning up this article, starting with the lead section and working my way down and then back up again to expand it. Preliminary changes are as follows:
More on the way. Viriditas ( talk) 02:53, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
As far as my research indicates, "The Virtual Curmudgeon" is wrong about the date and the circumstances surrounding VPL Research. This error has, amusingly, been repeated in a few publications. The best information I've been able to come up with is that in December 1992 VPL Research was unable to repay loans to Thompson CSF and was forced to hand over some of its patents. VPL, backed by Thompson, fired most of the staff, including Jaron Lanier and his research team. This information is from The Wall Street Journal. December 7, 1992, page B1 - article written by G Pascal Zachary. - I haven't made changes to the main text, but this should be updated before it finds its way into any more academic papers! Seriously, it doesn't make sense. Lanier was gave dozens of interviews in 1990 to publications that wanted to crown him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.23.137.233 ( talk) 23:28, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
In the introduction, it was mentioned that he nominated himself for TIME's 100 most influential list. But in the awards section, it says that Dan Reed nominated him (and has a citation to back it up). So I removed the mention of him nominating himself. Dideler ( talk) 06:04, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm finding a lot of material that has been cut and pasted directly into this article from either Lanier's website or other sites without inline citations or quotes. I'm removing them as I find them, but it is looking like the entire article needs to be checked out and rewritten. I'm very surprised that this sorry state of affairs was allowed to continue for this long; it is therefore no wonder Lanier is so upset about Web 2.0. If copying from Lanier's website is the best that Wikipedia can do, than our best is simply not good enough. Viriditas ( talk) 09:31, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
It smacks of his self promotion. -- 96.248.226.133 ( talk) 02:12, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
He was interviewed on Charlie Rose last night (I saw it today). Should such an appearance be listed in the section titled "In the media", assuming Charlie's Web site verifies it in writing (the appearance IS included on Charlie's Twitter feed)? 198.144.192.45 ( talk) 20:38, 20 March 2014 (UTC) Twitter.Com/CalRobert (Robert Maas)
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This appears in the lede, as well as in the Wiki article on VR. It must have and should be given a citation to a reliable source. As it is, it appears to be without foundation. Note that Lanier isn't even credited here with either publishing anything before 1990 or even being interviewed prior to then (and long after VR was in common use). Also, why is it noteworthy to mention that he said hello to Feynman or Gell-Mann? Unless either he or they can be quoted as ascribing some importance to this name-dropping, it should be removed (as puffery). Abitslow ( talk) 21:37, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Is there a "Minor Frauds of the 21st Century" category, or something like one? Rt3368 ( talk) 16:19, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
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I've recently begun cleaning up this article, starting with the lead section and working my way down and then back up again to expand it. Preliminary changes are as follows:
More on the way. Viriditas ( talk) 02:53, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
As far as my research indicates, "The Virtual Curmudgeon" is wrong about the date and the circumstances surrounding VPL Research. This error has, amusingly, been repeated in a few publications. The best information I've been able to come up with is that in December 1992 VPL Research was unable to repay loans to Thompson CSF and was forced to hand over some of its patents. VPL, backed by Thompson, fired most of the staff, including Jaron Lanier and his research team. This information is from The Wall Street Journal. December 7, 1992, page B1 - article written by G Pascal Zachary. - I haven't made changes to the main text, but this should be updated before it finds its way into any more academic papers! Seriously, it doesn't make sense. Lanier was gave dozens of interviews in 1990 to publications that wanted to crown him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.23.137.233 ( talk) 23:28, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
In the introduction, it was mentioned that he nominated himself for TIME's 100 most influential list. But in the awards section, it says that Dan Reed nominated him (and has a citation to back it up). So I removed the mention of him nominating himself. Dideler ( talk) 06:04, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm finding a lot of material that has been cut and pasted directly into this article from either Lanier's website or other sites without inline citations or quotes. I'm removing them as I find them, but it is looking like the entire article needs to be checked out and rewritten. I'm very surprised that this sorry state of affairs was allowed to continue for this long; it is therefore no wonder Lanier is so upset about Web 2.0. If copying from Lanier's website is the best that Wikipedia can do, than our best is simply not good enough. Viriditas ( talk) 09:31, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
It smacks of his self promotion. -- 96.248.226.133 ( talk) 02:12, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
He was interviewed on Charlie Rose last night (I saw it today). Should such an appearance be listed in the section titled "In the media", assuming Charlie's Web site verifies it in writing (the appearance IS included on Charlie's Twitter feed)? 198.144.192.45 ( talk) 20:38, 20 March 2014 (UTC) Twitter.Com/CalRobert (Robert Maas)
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This appears in the lede, as well as in the Wiki article on VR. It must have and should be given a citation to a reliable source. As it is, it appears to be without foundation. Note that Lanier isn't even credited here with either publishing anything before 1990 or even being interviewed prior to then (and long after VR was in common use). Also, why is it noteworthy to mention that he said hello to Feynman or Gell-Mann? Unless either he or they can be quoted as ascribing some importance to this name-dropping, it should be removed (as puffery). Abitslow ( talk) 21:37, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Is there a "Minor Frauds of the 21st Century" category, or something like one? Rt3368 ( talk) 16:19, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
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