SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
                     Copyright 1995, San Jose Mercury News

 DATE: Wednesday, October 11, 1995
 PAGE: 1C                                EDITION: MORNING FINAL
 SECTION: BUSINESS
 SOURCE: Simson L.*Garfinkel,*Special to the Mercury News
 MEMO: A Day In The Life Of Cyberspace
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                'A DAY IN THE LIFE' OF THE PEOPLE IN CYBERSPACE

    To help celebrate its 10th birthday, the MIT Media Lab has built an electronic family portrait of cyberspace.
    For the last 10 days, the lab's denizens have invited every single person who has an electronic mail address to send a message to the address ''bits(atsign)1010.org,'' telling how cyberspace and the digital revolution has changed his or her life. They have also received web pages, sound files, and video clips. The entire project, entitled ''A Day in the Life of Cyber space,'' is accessible now on the Internet through the address http:// 1010.org/.
     ''When you turn 10, you look at past, present and future,'' explains MIT Assistant Professor Michael Hawley, who is in charge of the project. ''We thought we would shout out to the rest of the world  and ask the world to tell us, or ponder with us, what this digital revolution means and what it might become.''
   The stories they told reflect how the digital era has forever transformed the way we live.
    A woman from Columbia University wrote how she met and fell in love with a man from New Zealand.
   Greg Cummings, executive director of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, told how a hand-held Global Positioning System receiver and a radar map of the mist- covered mountains of Virunga in eastern Zaire have helped forest rangers fight poachers. (See http://deathstar.rutgers.edu/projects.html for more information.)
  '''A lot of these [applications] are mind-blowing, but for a lot of people they are everyday life now,'' says Hawley.
    Even Hawley's 80-year-old Aunt Nin in Buffalo has been touched: ''Once a month [she] dials a telephone number, holds the telephone up to her chest, and a remote computer diagnoses the pacemaker signals,'' Hawley says.

 KEYWORDS: COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY
 TAG: 9510120126
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