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Loading... The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M. I. T.by Stewart Brand
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Another 'gee whiz' pop account of the wonders and inevitable progress of American ingenuity and big business. The holography references looked over-egged then, and particularly naive now. It's debatable whether any substantive elements of the future came from the Media Lab. ( ) Many of the predictions were variations of "personalized information portals" but without discussion of the content bubble these could create. Nobody quite seemed to put their finger on the World Wide Web, exactly. A perhaps ridiculous amount of text dedicated to holography. Most interesting was/is the funding model. They've convinced companies to fund thematic areas rather than specific projects. no reviews | add a review
Brand goes inside the world of MIT's Media Lab, famed for leading the reinvention of communition technology and applying computer science to daily life in new ways. The lab has led innovations in such fields as digital and computer programming, videocassette technology, e-mail, and holograms. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)302.2307207444Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Interaction Communication Media (Means of communication)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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