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This book came out in 1987, and I bought and read it as soon as it came out. Google books describes it as "Personalized newspapers, life-sized holograms, telephones that chat with callers, these are all projects that are being developed at MIT's Media Lab. Brand explores the exciting programs, and gives readers a look at the future of communications." But for me it was literally like reading about how to create a vision for the future in technology. ||
 * [[image:MIT_Media_Lab_books.jpg link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=upw9Bxb55h4C"]] || ==**The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT**. ==
 * [[image:being digital.PNG width="140" height="163" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=5A-u4op92gEC&lpg=PP1&dq=being%20digital&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || ==**Being Digital**== ||

The Visual Argument for a Media Lab

 * [[image:MIT Media Laboratory diagrams 2.jpg]] || "One of the goals of the Media Lab was to deal deliberately with the middle intersection, where you couldn't find much that was successful yet." Nicholas Negroponte, quoted in The Media Lab in a description of how he pitched the Media Lab for funding from MIT.

"Negroponte's vision: all communication technologies are suffering a joint metamorphosis, which can only be understood properly if treated as a single subject, and only advanced properly if treated as a single craft. The way to figure out what needs to be done is through exploring the human sensory and cognitive system and the ways that humans most naturally interact. Join this and you grasp the future." ||

(Source: Bloomberg.com) ||
 * media type="custom" key="24649796" || ==Video: The future of everything: Inside the MIT Media Lab==