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>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 95 23:16:42 -0400
>From: Michael Hawley <mike@pia.media.mit.edu>
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>               The MIT Media Lab invites the World to
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>                    10/10: A Day In The Life Of
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>                        C Y B E R S P A C E
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>                        http://www.1010.org
>                           info@1010.org
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>SNAPSHOTS OF THE DIGITAL AGE =======================================
>
>As part of the Media Lab's 10th Anniversary, we are assembling
>snapshots of Cyberspace. We would like *you* to be part of the
>first global portrait of human life in the digital age.  This site
>will collect bits from October 1 through October 10. Results will
>be published on the Web, in a subsequent book, and will become part
>of a permanent archive.
>
>Stop and think: five years ago, the internet for most people felt
>like tin cans and string.  Two years ago the Web and Mosaic were
>just beginning to be noticed.  Now, every day, something utterly
>mindblowing turns up with a point and a click.  This is a pivotal
>era, and a perfect time to ask the digital world to pause, and
>ponder the implications of digital media on future world culture.
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>WANTED: DIGITAL PIONEERS ===========================================
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>We are searching for compelling stories about digital life.
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>For example, we received an amazing message about how the Net is
>being used to protect endangered mountain gorillas. As part of
>NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, the space shuttle Endeavour made
>radar scans of the gorillas' habitat near the Virunga volcano, in
>central Africa. With handheld GPS satellite instruments, which
>anti-poaching rangers have been trained to use in the field, daily
>readings of gorilla movements and poacher activities are sent from
>a portable ground station in the mountains to another satellite,
>HealthSat II, and then over the Internet to the 3-D tracking system
>based at Rutgers University.  There are only 650 mountain gorillas
>left in the world, and this system is helping to save them.
>
>What we need are *your* bits -- your stories, in text, sound, and
>picture. How are global digital media affecting your life? Changing
>the fabric of world society? Touching human interests? What might
>the picture look like in 5 years? 50 years? Let us know, and quickly.
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>COUNT TO TEN =======================================================
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>During the days from 10/1 to 10/9 we focus on several themes:
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> 1 Privacy -- Anonymity, Security, Privacy & Trust in a Digital Society
> 2 Expression -- Digital Art, Entertainment & Community Creativity
> 3 Generations -- Kids & Childhood, Seniors, Life Stories and Family
> 4 Wealth -- Advertising, Barter, Commerce and Personalized Trade
> 5 Faith -- Religion and Politics and their Net Effects
> 6 Body -- Sex, Health, Your Body and Technology
> 7 Place -- Our Sense of Place in a Post-Digital World
> 8 Tongues -- Languages in the Global Village
> 9 Environment -- Coexistence and Coevolution of Natural and Virtual Worlds
>
>For example, in "Generations" we'd like to hear from the youngest
>kids on line, and connect them with the oldest senior citizens.
>During the day on "Place" we'd like to collect images from every
>netcam on earth, and bits from every country on earth with some
>tie to the Net. Do you communicate with a friend in Antarctica or
>Bosnia by e-mail? Did you find life-saving medecine in time, thanks
>to the Net? Was your wedding online? Your newborn child?
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>10/10: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF CYBERSPACE =============================
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>Then, on 10/10, live from the Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
>teams of professional editors and World Wide Web hackers working
>in "mission control" at MIT will collect, edit, and publish the
>best of those bits on the net. Taken together, these bits will
>create a mosaic of life at the dawn of the digital revolution that
>is transforming our planet.
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>HOW TO DO IT =======================================================
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>1. Through the World Wide Web: http://www.1010.org
>2. By e-mail, send specific remarks to:
>      cyber@1010.org --- general reflections on digital life
>      privacy@... --- comments regarding privacy, anonymity
>      expression@... --- art, entertainment & community creativity
>      generations@... --- kids, seniors, life stories, family
>      wealth@... --- advertising, barter, commerce, personalized trade
>      faith@... --- religion and politics
>      body@... --- sex, health, our bodies & technology
>      place@... --- geography, telecommuting, mobility, virtual v. physical
>      tongues@ --- languages and communications on line
>      environment@... --- mixing of natural and digital worlds
>3. By ftp (to send sounds, pictures):
>      ftp to ftp.1010.org, login anonymous
>      cd pub/incoming
>      "put" your bits.
>      Please pick a unique filename, and also give us
>      a file called "<mybits>.README" to explain who you
>      are and what your data is.
>4. For more information, mail to: info@1010.org
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>ABOUT YOUR BITS ====================================================
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>You are writing a community book.
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>Your input is being used to illuminate the stories of digital life.
>Your bits will become part of a global, public, community event --
>a canvas that we all paint together. The visualizations and time
>capsules, as well as selected responses will be archived and may
>be published by the MIT Media Lab or its agents in the future. Some
>material will be selected, edited, and arranged for redisplay on
>the Web on 10/10 and may appear in book form later.  You retain
>all copyrights to your entries but by submitting them are granting
>MIT a perpetual non-exclusive right, without cost, to use your
>entries in all forms for purposes that will advance public
>understanding of this event.
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