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An edition of The Media Lab
(1987)
The Media Lab
inventing the future at MIT
by Stewart Brand
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This edition was published in 1988 by Penguin Books in New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
Written in English
— 285 pages
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Laboratory, Computers, Massamedia, Futurologie, Cambridge (Mass.), Medienforschung, Laboratoria, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media LaboratoryPreviews available in: English
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The Media Lab
inventing the future at MIT
First published in 1987
Subjects
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Laboratory, Computers, Massamedia, Futurologie, Cambridge (Mass.), Medienforschung, Laboratoria, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media LaboratoryThe Media Lab
inventing the future at MIT
This edition was published in 1988 by Penguin Books in New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
First Sentence
"In the basement the inventor of the white-light hologram that flickers from America's credit cards is demonstrating the world's first projected hologram."
Table of Contents
Preface to the Penguin Edition | xi | |
PART ONE: The World of the Media Lab | ||
1 | Demo or Die | 3 |
Amphibian | ||
Teething Rings | ||
The Boggle Factor | ||
2 | Newmedia 1 - Receiving | 17 |
Digital Ears | ||
Dense Media | ||
The E-Mail Proletariat | ||
The VCR Proletariat | ||
The Sun Never Sets on the Phone Company | ||
3 | Terminal Garden | 35 |
Personal Newspaper | ||
Personal Television | ||
Broadcatch | ||
Conversational Desktop | ||
Why Programmers Work at Night | ||
Newmedia 2 - Sending | 61 | |
TV is Trying | ||
Cable is Trying | ||
The Satellite Proletariat | ||
Optical Fiber Strikes Back | ||
The Science of Apparition | 71 | |
Intelligent Television | ||
Paperback Movies | ||
Art for Invention's Sake | ||
3D Comes Back | ||
Talking Heads | ||
6 | Vivarium | 95 |
Artificial Ecology | ||
Devil | ||
Player Pianos of the Future | ||
Animating Virtual Reality | ||
Flexoids | ||
7 | Hennigan School | 119 |
One Student, One Computer | ||
LEGO/Logo | ||
Bug Appreciation | ||
8 | The Room Who Will Giggle | 131 |
The Golden Age of Communication Science | ||
Architecture Machine Group | ||
Eyes as Output | ||
The Founding Image and the Connecting Idea | ||
9 | Funding the Future, Finding the Future | 155 |
Nothing Proprietary | ||
From American Military to Japanese Corporate | ||
PART TWO: The Media Lab of the World | ||
10 | Life in Parallel | 181 |
11 | The Politics of Broadcatch | 201 |
Information Wants to Be Free | ||
The Invited Persuader | ||
Information Wants to Be (Politically) Free | ||
Digital Faux | ||
The Important Philosophers of the Twentieth Century | ||
Metacomputer | ||
12 | The World Information Economy | 229 |
World Money | ||
World Entertainment | ||
Fading Nations | ||
The Global City | ||
13 | Quality of Life | 251 |
Personal Renaissance | ||
Communication Ecologists | ||
Humanism Through Machines | ||
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 265 | |
INDEX | 269 |
Edition Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [265]-267.
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