Coffee With Josh Harris - Internet Visionary

This is the second coffee Josh has donated, we're so thankful! Have coffee with Josh Harris, live in person or via Skype, and share at least one hour of conversation about his pioneering work on the Internet and what he sees in the digital future!

Josh is the founder of JupiterResearch and Pseudo.com, a the world's first Internet television broadcasting site. Harris is the focus and star of the documentary film, We Live in Public. The documentary was awarded the Grand Jury Prize award in the US documentary category at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and is also in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art. Josh strongly believes that the technological singularity will be reached and the human being will cease to be an individual, while the machine becomes the new king of the jungle.

Among Harris' experiments featured in the film is the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public," an Orwellian, Big Brother type concept developed in the late '90s which placed more than 100 volunteers in a human terrarium under New York City, with many webcams following and capturing every move they made. The project was forced to shut down on January 1, 2000 by order of the New York Police Department.

A few months later, Harris started weliveinpublic.com, a project that entailed himself and his then girlfriend living at home under 24-hour internet surveillance viewable by anyone. After a few months she left the project citing mental and emotional stress. Harris continued "living in public" for a few more weeks, finally ending the site on his own terms.

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