TIME FOR LONGER-TERM METAPHORS

World's fairs, radio stations, and government databases kept us busy for four years, but in 1997 we decided it was time for a reboot. It wasn't that we were unhappy with the work we were doing or frustrated with the continual cycle of fundraising, but rather a desire to try and understand how to grow IMS into an institute able to conceive and carry out large-scale public works projects for the Internet.

Photo/Deb Roy

As part of the reboot, we disposed of a couple million dollars in computers and sound equipment to the University of Virginia and the MIT Media Lab. We spent some time helping the Internet Software Consortium get off the ground, and we wrote a book about the world's fair which was published by MIT Press and featured a foreword from the Dalai Lama and an afterword from Laurie Anderson.

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