The Media Lab: inventing the future at MIT

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PREFACE ......Page 12 1 DEMO OR DIE ......Page 22 Ej Amphibian ......Page 24 g Teething Rings ......Page 28 ° The Boggle Factor ......Page 32 2 NEWMEDIA 1 RECEIVING ......Page 36 ° Digital Ears ......Page 39 ^ Dense Media ......Page 40 ^ The E-Mail Proletariat ......Page 42 0 The VCR Proletariat ......Page 45 jžj The Sun Never Sets on the Phone Company ......Page 49 3 TERMINAL GARDEN ......Page 54 ^ Personal Newspaper ......Page 55 ° Personal Television ......Page 58 o Broadcatch ......Page 61 ^ Conversational Desktop ......Page 64 Ej Why Programmers Work at Night ......Page 75 4 NEWMEDIA 2 SENDING ......Page 80 Jjj TV Is Trying ......Page 82 j=j The Satellite Proletariat ......Page 84 ° Optical Fiber Strikes Back ......Page 86 5 THE SCIENCE OF APPARITION ......Page 90 Ej Intelligent Television ......Page 92 ° Paperback Movies ......Page 97 g Art for Invention’s Sake ......Page 101 ^ 3D Comes Back ......Page 102 ° Talking Heads ......Page 110 6 VIVARIUM ......Page 114 jjj Artificial Ecology ......Page 116 ° Devil ......Page 120 Ej Player Pianos of the Future ......Page 126 ^ Animating Virtual Reality ......Page 129 ° Flexoids ......Page 135 7 HENNIGAN SCHOOL ......Page 138 ° One Student, One Computer ......Page 139 □ LEGO/Logo ......Page 143 ^ Bug Appreciation ......Page 145 8 THE ROOM WHO WILL GIGGLE ......Page 150 ^ The Golden Age of Communication Science ......Page 153 ° Architecture Machine Group ......Page 156 Ej Eyes as Output ......Page 186 Ej The Founding Image and the Connecting Idea ......Page 191 9 FUNDING THE FUTURE, FINDING THE FUTURE ......Page 198 jjj Nothing Proprietary ......Page 199 |=j From American Military to Ej Japanese Corporate ......Page 204 0 Users of the Future ......Page 218 10 LIFE IN PARALLEL ......Page 224 s ......Page 244 ^ Information Wants to Be Free ......Page 245 j=j The Invited Persuader ......Page 250 Ej Information Wants to Be (Politically) Free ......Page 254 j=j Digital Faux ......Page 262 o Metacomputer ......Page 269 12 THE WORLD INFORMATION ECONOMY ......Page 272 Ej World Money ......Page 273 o World Entertainment ......Page 278 ° Fading Nations ......Page 282 ^ The Global City ......Page 287 13 QUALITY OF LIFE ......Page 294 0 Personal Renaissance ......Page 295 Cj Communication Ecologists ......Page 301 |U Humanism Through Machines ......Page 305 BIBLIOGRAPHY ......Page 308 INDEX ......Page 312