Josh Harris (internet)
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Josh Harris (2009).
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| Born | c. 1960 |
| Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Occupation | Internet entrepreneur |
Josh Harris (born c. 1960) is an internet entrepreneur. He was the founder of JupiterResearch and Pseudo.com, a live audio and video webcasting website founded in 1993, which filed for bankruptcy following the end of the dot-com bubble in 2000.
Josh Harris was born circa 1960. He grew up in Ventura, California. His father worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) while his mother was a social worker. He has three brothers and three sisters.
Harris majored in communications at UC San Diego and later was a graduate student at the University of Southern California's (USC) Annenberg School for Communication.
Harris founded the technology consulting firm Jupiter Communications in 1986.
Harris owned and operated Livingston Orchards, LLC, a commercial apple farm in Columbia County, New York from 2001–2006. He was subsequently the CEO of the African Entertainment Network, based in the Sidamo region of Ethiopia., where he lived after leaving New York. Moreover, he was the CEO of The Wired City, an internet television network based in New York City
Harris is the focus of director Ondi Timoner's documentary film, We Live in Public, an entry at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary was awarded the Grand Jury Prize award in the US documentary category at the festival.
Among Harris' experiments featured in the film is the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public," an Orwellian, Big Brother type concept developed in the late '90s which placed more than 100 volunteers in a human terrarium under New York City, with many webcams following and capturing every move they made. The project was forced to shut down on January 1, 2000 by order of the New York Police Department. On the Swedish TV show Kobra, Harris stated that he had been widely influenced by the 1998 movie The Truman Show. He strongly believes that the technological singularity will be reached and the human being will cease to be an individual, while the machine becomes the new king of the jungle.
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