Listening

02021-11-15 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

It’s like an early Christmas for me… took a walk and listened to podcasts with film music composer Hans Zimmer and with Jaron Lanier, the godfather of virtual reality. You can find the two excellent podcasts here:

Why Hans Zimmer Won’t Be Making Music for the Metaverse

The Metaverse: Expectations vs Reality (w Jaron Lanier)


I loved the first podcast, with Hans Zimmer. He is very smart and quite charming. Thoroughly enjoyable interview. That second podcast with Jaron Lanier is brilliant. I was nodding my head a lot. Deserves repeated listening.

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  1. JaneParhamKatz

    Thanks. These podcasts were great.

    Hans Zimmer seemed charming and funny. Nearly every time I love the music in a movie, I find out it is Hans Zimmer. Wonderful! I also really like the late Jerry Goldsmith’s movie scores. Another prolific composer.

    I am struggling with the “Metaverse.” Things are getting scary. I heard Elon Musk say this morning that AI is the scariest problem – that we should start regulating it right now before it takes over and threatens our very existence, because everything humans do will be done much better by AI. Anyone else saying this, I would dismiss it. But I tend to pay attention to a genius.

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