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Conference Draws Internet Czars

"What's important about the conference is whatcomes after it," Nesson said. "A lot ofconferences you go to and have a good time andcome back in a couple years and talk about thesame problems."

Nesson says he wants the conference to be avehicle to address the issues the conferenceraises, rather than merely explore them.

"We're at the end of what you might think of asthe second industrial revolution. At the end ofthe first, we built libraries and parks. It's timeto build the common spaces in cyberspace," headded.

Nesson regards the conference's website athttp://cybercon98.harvard.edu as one step towardcreating a commons.

The site contains video recordings of many ofthe conference's speakers in addition todiscussion areas for selected topics.

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To extend the conference's global reach, Nessonsays he is planning to have the site translatedinto Chinese and posted on a site in China

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