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This week, a conversation between two accomplished multi-disciplinary minds - writer Jennifer Egan and computer scientist and artist Jaron Lanier.\\xa0Egan won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel A Visit from The Goon Squad. Now, a decade later, she\\u2019s written a sort of sibling to that book. It\\u2019s called The Candy House and it imagines a technology that allows people to access every memory they\\u2019ve ever had, and give away those recollections in exchange for access to the memories of other people.

Technology\\u2019s dystopian potential is something scientist Jaron Lanier has given a lot of thought to\\u2026 Lanier is a composer, artist, and a pioneer in the field of virtual reality. He\\u2019s both developed new technologies, as well as taken a critical approach to them \\u2013 particularly in his research into their social impacts and political ramifications. Lanier\\u2019s books include You Are not A Gadget, and Who Owns the Future.

On April 18, 2022, Jaron Lanier and Jennifer Egan sat down to talk to one another about the relationship between fiction and consciousness, and technology\\u2019s impacts - both good and bad.