Thu, 10 Apr 2003

Media Lab Going Down

The Lab That Fell to Earth. Once the center of the technology research universe, the storied MIT Media Lab is teetering on the brink of breakup -- or worse, irrelevance. By Brendan I. Koerner from Wired magazine. [Wired News]

A lot of good work came out of here - I visited the place in the mid-90's and the atmosphere was electric. It would be a shame, but it's probably doomed. I wonder how much (if any) of a role fighting over patent issues contributed to the funding dry-up.

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