The Media Lab: inventing the future at MIT

PREFACE
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1 DEMO OR DIE
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Ej Amphibian
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g Teething Rings
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° The Boggle Factor
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2 NEWMEDIA 1 RECEIVING
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° Digital Ears
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^ Dense Media
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^ The E-Mail Proletariat
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0 The VCR Proletariat
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jžj The Sun Never Sets on the Phone Company
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3 TERMINAL GARDEN
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^ Personal Newspaper
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° Personal Television
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o Broadcatch
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^ Conversational Desktop
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Ej Why Programmers Work at Night
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4 NEWMEDIA 2 SENDING
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Jjj TV Is Trying
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j=j The Satellite Proletariat
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° Optical Fiber Strikes Back
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5 THE SCIENCE OF APPARITION
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Ej Intelligent Television
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° Paperback Movies
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g Art for Invention’s Sake
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^ 3D Comes Back
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° Talking Heads
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6 VIVARIUM
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jjj Artificial Ecology
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° Devil
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Ej Player Pianos of the Future
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^ Animating Virtual Reality
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° Flexoids
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7 HENNIGAN SCHOOL
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° One Student, One Computer
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□ LEGO/Logo
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^ Bug Appreciation
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8 THE ROOM WHO WILL GIGGLE
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^ The Golden Age of Communication Science
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° Architecture Machine Group
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Ej Eyes as Output
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Ej The Founding Image and the Connecting Idea
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9 FUNDING THE FUTURE, FINDING THE FUTURE
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jjj Nothing Proprietary
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|=j From American Military to Ej Japanese Corporate
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0 Users of the Future
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10 LIFE IN PARALLEL
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^ Information Wants to Be Free
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j=j The Invited Persuader
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Ej Information Wants to Be (Politically) Free
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j=j Digital Faux
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o Metacomputer
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12 THE WORLD INFORMATION ECONOMY
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Ej World Money
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o World Entertainment
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° Fading Nations
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^ The Global City
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13 QUALITY OF LIFE
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0 Personal Renaissance
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Cj Communication Ecologists
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|U Humanism Through Machines
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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