Re:Dava Newman Named Director of MIT Media Lab
by ghaff on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @01:33PM
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I can see it both ways.
Yes, they were always intended to be something different and were definitely the "new hotness" at one point.
But, although good work has certainly come out of the Media Lab, when was the last time you saw them in the news other than for, well, that? Certainly not intended to be a knock on everyone at the Media Lab. But there was certainly a point when it was viewed as one of the places that was "inventing the future" as it said in the title of Stewart Brand's book. How much real impact has it had lately?
Yes, they were always intended to be something different and were definitely the "new hotness" at one point.
But, although good work has certainly come out of the Media Lab, when was the last time you saw them in the news other than for, well, that? Certainly not intended to be a knock on everyone at the Media Lab. But there was certainly a point when it was viewed as one of the places that was "inventing the future" as it said in the title of Stewart Brand's book. How much real impact has it had lately?