Jaron Lanier plays a pathological number of rare acoustic musical instruments, a malady he described in the New Yorker Magazine. He’s been playing lately in bands he loves, like Music and Future of Humanity as well as God Particle – and also as a collaborator with Les Claypool, John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, T Bone Burnett, Sara Bareilles, Sean Lennon, Stanley Jordan, Will Calhoun, Harper Simon, Bill Frisell, and many others.  Before the pandemic he toured with tons of other people like Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Ornette Coleman. He also writes orchestra music and plays normal instruments, like the piano.  He’s also a writer of books like You Are Not a Gadget and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.  He’s won literary awards like the German Peace Prize for Books, one of the world’s highest lit honors.  He’s that guy on Social Dilemma on Netflix, which high school students are forced to watch.  He’s also a scientist and technologist, known for his work initiating the field of Virtual Reality among other things.  He won a Lifetime Career Award from the IEEE and Wired named him one the 25 most influential figures in tech of the previous 25 years, though that was a while ago.