foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lamaafterword by Laurie AndersonWhen Carl
Malamud set out to re-create the great world's fairs of the last century, he
envisioned an event that took place all over the world, one where anybody could
build a pavilion; a world's fair that embraced the new technologies of the
Internet in the same way that past fairs embraced technologies such as radio and
electricity. He bought seven around-the-world plane tickets and set off in
search of volunteers to help build what he dubbed "a world's fair for the
information age."In less than a year, Malamud and a grass-roots collection of
engineers, artists, and other