XMAS LECTURE 04

CYBERSALON & NMK @ THE DANA CENTRE

The Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London SW7
5HE <www.danacentre.org.uk>
Cost: This event is free but places must be booked by calling 020 7942 4040 or by emailing: tickets[AT]danacentre.org.uk
Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road

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Eva Pascoe - "Social
Space in a Virtual World: The First Ten Years of the Internet Cafe"

The annual NMK/Cybersalon Christmas Lecture will this
year be given by Internet entrepreneur Eva Pascoe. Eva will describe
her experiences in founding Cyberia, the world's first Internet Café,
and how Internet Cafes have continued to evolve and impact on society.

Cyberia, the world's first fully Internet-enabled Café opened
10 years ago in a West End backstreet, with customers who had to be taught
how to use a browser and bandwidth a fraction of what we have come to
expect from our computers at home. Today, there are tens of thousands
of Internet Cafés across the world. Travelers and migrants populate
London's, while from Baghdad to Beijing, people continue to bring machines
together, in order for machines to bring people together.

Coffee houses have been at the vanguard of many of the
world's most significant developments, be it Enlightenment philosophy,
the financial services industries, the French revolution or global trade.
No wonder, then, that at the end of the twentieth century, Cafés
should have been so important in the emergence of the networked society.

With illustrations, Eva will tell the early history of
Cyberia, drawing directly on her experiences in managing the Café and
as a technology pioneer and entrepreneur. In the course of the talk,
she will reflect on the legacy of Cyberia: how Internet Cafes have evolved
over the years, what their role is today, and how society and communications
technologies continue to impact on one another.