🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sunday, February 26, at the Capitola Book Cafe in Capitola, California, author/professor/columnist 
Nicholas Negroponte performed a book-signing for his new publication, Being Digital.  Mr. Negroponte is a 
senior columnist for WiReD Magazine, MIT professor of media technology and founding director of the 
world-famous MIT Media Lab.  I believe all of us were impressed by this unpretentious man.  His first 
comment after being asked what inspired his writing of Being Digital was: "A true inspiration for the book 
had come when I learned that the majority of WiReD Magazine subscriptions were from teenagers."
	"I am not an author, these were just thoughts in my head.  I sent them [Knopf] a megabyte...  They 
returned it on a white paper with stickers for corrections, and I sent back a megabyte."
	A gentleman in the audience, Russian-born citizen Joseph Goldin, introduced himself and thanked 
Mr. Negroponte for inspiring him to invite a new generation of teenagers to coordinate a special multipoint 
video link/bridge, "Global Tea Party for Sarajevo's Library", being held on Earth Day, 1995.
	Mr. Negroponte expressed his interest in participating.  Mr. Goldin explained further that by 
bringing the practically isolated people of Sarajevo in contact with the individuals and groups around the 
world in a global tea party will break the cultural blockade on the city of Sarajevo.  Roughly a week later, 
Santa Cruz High School computer club ORION, being extremely interested in the Global Interactive Plaza 
concept, offered their full support, including their WWW page for any information that needed to be made 
available to the public.  Those at Earth Day International, computer club ORION, and various other places, are 
forming a monumental peace-promoting mechanism that will begin to eliminate the cultural barriers.  Stay 
posted on this, as more and more information will be following this initial notice.


- Daniel Duerr - Baseline Records
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