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Summary
Summary
From the best-selling author of the Day in the Life series, this new book chronicles the 24 Hours in Cyberspace live publishing event that took place February 8, 1996 across the world. It features more than 200 of the most compelling photos and heartwarming stories captured by over 150 professional photographers. Readers will meet couples who have logged on and fallen in love, doctors who carry medical relief across continents using the Internet, wildlife rangers who track elephants using global positioning satellites and more.
-- The high-quality, hardcover production make this book ideal for the Christmas buying season
-- Rich, full-color photographs create an intimate and emotional portrait of people whose lives have been dramatically affected by the online world
-- CD-ROM includes the entire 24 Hours in Cyberspace Web site, Netscape Navigator for Windows 95 and Macintosh; plus, 15 hours free time on America Online and GNN
Reviews 3
Publisher's Weekly Review
Smolan, who created the popular "Day in the Life" photo-essay series, and Erwitt, project director of the series, led a team of 150 photojournalists who fanned out across the world on February 8, 1996, to document how the Internet and online communication are changing people's lives. This striking collage is full of remarkable human-interest stories, complemented by more than 200 interesting, sometimes stunning photographs. We see a global village emerging: students in Michigan virtually work alongside archeologists in Egypt as they excavate a fourth-century Coptic monastery; an Inuit boy who travels across Canada's tundra by dogsled sends digital pictures of his life to children around the world; exiled Tibetans and Mexican Zapatista guerrillas seek political support or medical assistance via the Internet. Stories include those of an electronically reconstructed 14-acre AIDS quilt cybermemorial and a Virginia man on death row for a murder he claims he did not commit, who is lobbying for a new trial on a Web page created by a Boston law student. Essays by Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, examine the Internet as a democratic medium, a market space for businesses, a vital link to medical care, a tool for seeing the planet in new ways. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the entire "24 Hours in Cyberspace" Web site. 200,000 first printing; $500,000 ad/promo; first serial to U.S. News & World Report; author tour. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Smolan, creator of the popular Day in the Life series, marshaled his army of photojournalists to document a day in the life of the Internet, and they expertly captured the myriad uses of the Net all around the world, proving the claim implicit in the phrase World Wide Web.
Library Journal Review
Designed much in the same vein as Smolan's popular "Day in the Life" series (e.g., A Day in the Life of Canada, 1984), this exhaustive photographic tribute provides a glimpse into a single day of life online. With heart-wrenching photos of sick youngsters whose parents find solace in virtual support groups, monks who discover the benefits of laptop computers, and a group of Mexican guerrillas who spell out their political aims through the World Wide Web, this feel-good celebration is hard to fault, even with its unremittingly positive focus. Much of the material here is fascinating, and most folks who pick up this book won't soon put it down. Curiously, the URLs that should accompany the related photos are relegated to an index. The entire project is also available for viewing online at . Recommended for most public libraries.Mark Annichiarico, "Library Journal" (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
