Dawn of the New Everything

A terrific book by a supremely intelligent guy ... vivid and absolutely extraordinary

Evening Standard

A deeply human, highly personal and beautifully told story

Dave Eggers

It's entirely unexpected and disarming to read about these fascinating ideas about technology and the future from such a personal, unabashedly subjective point of view. Lanier has thoroughly convinced me that Virtual Reality is the beginning of an enormous paradigm shift in the way humans relate and communicate

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Essential reading, not just for VR-watchers but for anyone interested in how society came to be how it is, and what it might yet become

Economist

Lanier beautifully describes his fascination with VR as the technology that 'highlights the existence of your subjective experience. It proves you are real'

Nature

Fascinating as life itself … a modern history of the industry that changed the world

Hugo Rifkind, The Times

Lanier is a visionary who sees a world suffused with the possibility of good ... As with William Blake, you might first be repelled by the strangeness of it all, the sense of teetering on the edge of madness, but, on looking closer, you realise you are in the presence of a gifted truth-teller

Brian Appleyard, Sunday Times

A studied and nuanced interrogation of VR’s potential, as well as a gentle critique of what he sees as a failure of imagination when it comes to the medium’s current proponents ... interspersing the general ideas, principles and promise of VR with intimate autobiography ... aided by the fact that Lanier's childhood was preposterously unusual … combin[ing] tragedy, whimsy and peril in ways that might seem far-fetched for even a David Lynch film

Observer

A tech futurist, researcher and writer, he is well placed to act as guide to the world described in Dawn of the New Everything… A lot of the charm of this highly personal account turns on his description of a childhood that reads like something out of a magical realist novel

Financial Times

Fascinating

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