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"the Warhol of the Web" – one of the first internet multimillionaires, who took the $80m fortune he'd made and started to explore the possibilities and implications of this new technology, to the point of self-destruction. In the process, he became the focal point of the downtown New York scene that, for heady extravagance, rivalled anything from the 1960s or 1970s.
His Millennium Eve party, called Quiet: We Live in Public, ran for over a month, during which an ad-hoc community of human subjects lived in pods in a six-storey Broadway warehouse, each pod wired up and effectively functioning as a TV channel, streamed live to the web via Harris's online TV portal at Pseudo.com. It was 1,000 times more vital and acute than the still-nascent Big Brother. "Don't bring your money," Harris said. "Everything here is free."
"This could happen" but "This will happen". This is where the technology is taking us; and what's more, it's where we want to go.
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