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^HECF FRO nORIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY \ ?0-1ROcM^ & 1 31111017406420 1 1 1 I FOR THE GLOBAL VILLAG :.it:!; Includes AUDIO CD and CD-ROM :%. .*"v hCtp://park.org/ Malamud Carl Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Afterword by Laurie Anderson A E World s w FOR THE GLOBAL VI LT ,03 by Carl Malamud ^\^ Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama vy ^•^'5'*'®'^ Afterword by Laurie Anderson A World's Fair for the Global Village is the story of how a iSSnnuM grassroots collection ofengineers, artists, and other volunteers set out to re-create the great world's fairs of the last century. In less than a year, they created the Internet 1996 World Exposition, which attracted 5 million visitors from 130 countries. The offerings included everything from a road rally in Mongolia to a chess match between Garry Kasparov and the Deep Blue computer. Newsweek called this world's fair "perhaps the most ambitious undertaking on the Internet to date." A dozen heads of state, 'mv Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton among them, endorsed the world's fair. Corporations contributed $100 million in \W telecommunications capacity and computers to create the \'^ fairgrounds, a globe-spanning Internet Railroad, and Central Park, a public park for the global village. Carl Malamud, the fair's founder, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the fair, from its inception through the closing ceremony. This book, full offunny anecdotes and clear, nontechnical explanations, includes profiles ofthe small group ofpeople who made happen, backstage glimpses into the elaborate it preparations, visits to highlights of the pavilions, and visitors' guestbook comments. This book isthe story ofaworld'sfair, but itis alsothestoryofwhat it means to operate huge computer servers and networks in the early boom days ofthe Internet. Malamud gives a firsthand perspective of the early days of a new medium, weaving into his narrative stories from his experience starting the first radio station on the Internet. An overview ofwhat the Internet is and what it may become, this book is a fascinating glimpse at life on the front lines of the information revolution. A World's Fair for the Global Village includes two discs. Concert in the Park is an audio CD containing original music and a series of live field recordings from such noted artists as Ryuichi Sakamoto and Uma Guha. The second disc, a CD-ROM, contains highlights ofthe fair, including Garry Kasparov's com- mentary on his chess match with Deep Blue and sumo wrestler Konishiki's conversations with children from all over the world. The CD-ROM also contains video interviews with fair creators, the full guest book with over 5,000 comments from visitors, and Carl Malamud's personal email archive with the original documents and mail messages that led up to the first i fair for the information age. CIVIC CENTER ^^ 01740 6420 '^"'{Vl 1 1 1 DATE DUE HA/? 7 fQQO f m M/VY ? 1998 1 1 2DD0 > ' . 'S: \ CLOMLVILLfla 1 Contributors GraphicDesigner: Becky Pranger AudioandMultimedia Production: Corinne Becknell and Martin Lucas Book Production: Larry Pranger Systems Programming: Brad Burdick and PhilippeTabaux DevelopmentalEditing: Stephanie Paul FairTrain: Rob Pierce FairMascotDevelopment: Nick Gressle PrimaryPhotographers: Deb K. Roy, Somkid Chaijitvanit, Doors Magazine Artists: Alan Brown/Photonics Graphics, Mercedes Ferrari Video Editing: NatashaTsarkova MacandJava Overdrive: Phillip R. Tiongson JavaDevelopment:Noah C. Lehmann-Haupt,WilliamR. Wallis Contributions ofcomputers and services forthe production ofthis book were provided by IBM, Sun Microsystems, BBN Planet, FirstVirtual Holdings, NIKHEF, and WIDE. flWOMDUIllJ^ mm (iLOMLYILLflC^ Carl Malamud The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 1997MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology All rights reserved. Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformbyany electronicormechanical means (includingphotocopying, recording,orinformation storageandretrieval) without permissioninwrittingfromthepublisher. Thefollowingpublishershavegenerouslygivenpermission tousequotationsfromcopyrightedworks: FromShipof FoolsbyRobertHunter© 1974 byIceNinePublishing Company,Inc. FromStrangeAngelsbyLaurieAnderson © 1989 byDifficultMusic.ThequotefromJorgeLuis Borgesonthededication pageisfrom The CircularRuins, publishedinAPersonalAnthologybyJorgeLuisBorges © 1967byGrovePress,Inc. TheLoveSongofJ. Alfred Prufrock byT.S. Eliot©byHarcourtBraceand CompanyandFaberandFaber,Ltd. Copyrightisalso acknowledged forthefollowingworks: TheSonglines by BruceChatwin©BruceChatwin 1987,Picadoredition. The WizardofOzbySalman Rushdie©SalmanRushdie 1992,BritishFilm Instituteedition. ASupposedlyFun ThingrllNeverDoAgain byDavidFosterWallace© DavidFosterWallace, Little Brownedition. Screen capturesfromtheWorldWideWebremainthecopyright protectedpropertyoftheiroriginalowners,whose address isnotedonthepagesinwhichtheyappear. Theblackandwhitepicturesofworld'sfairsare© TheSmithsonianInstitution. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Malamud, Carl. A world's fair for the global village / Carl Malamud. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-262-13338-5 (alk. paper) 1. Internet 1996 world exposition. 2. World Wide Web (Information retrieval system) I. Title. ZA4226.M35 1997 907'.4—dc21 97-11146 GIF to weave a rope of sand Or mint c:oins of the faceless wind. Jorge Luis Borges This book isdedicatedto thepeople aroundthe worldwho haveworkedto buildapublicpark fortheglobalvillage. 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