Carl Malamud is Invisible Worlds', co-founder and board member. He previously founded the Internet Multicasting Service, the nonprofit group that helped pioneer some of the most important early content on the World Wide Web. Internet Multicasting is known for creating the first
Internet radio station, for putting the SEC's EDGAR database on-line, and for creating the Internet 1996 World Exposition.
Memory Palaces In This Edition of All Over the Map
The idea of a shadowy underworld of magicians and outlaws who learned (and practiced) the secret arts inspired an obsession by some of the noted authors of the 20th century. Thomas Pynchon, in particular, used the Giordanistis as the model for the shadowy world of an underground postal service in The Crying of Lot 49