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...RICK SMOLAN'S "24 HOURS IN CYBERspace" was supposed to be a round-the-clock, planet-spanning online party, a feel-good cyberfest celebrating the paradigm-shifting possibilities of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Smolan, the photographer and entrepreneur behind the hugely successful Day in the Life series of photo books that document everyday life in Spain, Japan, Australia, the U.S.S.R. and the U.S., hoped to do the same for the growing world of interconnected computers...
...thanks to coincidence--and a turn of political events--the 24 hours Smolan chose to document were anything but a celebration. They fell on the very day last week that President Clinton signed a telecommunications bill, which contains easily the most reviled piece of legislation in cyberspace, the Communications Decency Act. The law imposes stiff penalties for posting or transmitting "indecent" material online--a provision that strips from online communications the First Amendment guarantees that protect the written and spoken word...
...White House photographer are shooting pictures for this event." One project organizer told TIME that Vice President Al Gore's office notified "24 Hours" officials in advance that the White House wanted to sign the bill on February 8: "They want to surf our site live." Rick Smolan, the entrepreneur behind the event, told TIME that the timing of the Internet protest is "in some ways incredibly fortunate because it will show what the world would be like without this kind of connectivity...
Publishing executive David Cohen, who had produced similar books on the U.S. and on the Soviet Union with Rick Smolan, dispatched 90 photographers throughout China one day last spring. Months of planning went into the project, which was sponsored by Eastman Kodak, Nikon, Northwest Airlines, BankAmerica, Holiday Inn and Federal Express. Says TIME picture editor Michele Stephenson, who helped supervise the project in Beijing: "As fate would have it, A Day in the Life of China captured a portrait of this sprawling nation hours before the beginning of the student revolt...
...photographs on these and the following pages are the fruit of an extraordinary feat of organization. In the past eight years, Rick Smolan and David Cohen have co-directed projects that captured a single day in the lives of Australia, Canada, Japan and America. Now, after three years of complex negotiations with a government long used to rendering its territory invisible, they dispatched 100 top photographers from West and East to record a single 24-hour period. The result is A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union, culled from 127,000 images snapped on Friday...