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Meetings with Remarkable Men…
The Edgerton Digital Collections project celebrates the spirit of a great pioneer, Harold “Doc” Edgerton, inventor, entrepreneur, explorer and beloved MIT professor– a site for all who share Doc...
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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it”*…
It’s straight out of the pages of science fiction: a “wearable” book, which uses temperature controls and lighting to mimic the experiences of a story’s protagonist, has been dreamed up by academics...
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“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer...
Further to Wednesday’s almanac entry on America’s first independent municipal sewer system… Sometime in mid to late January, researchers from MIT plan to gather around a manhole on Portland Street in...
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“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and...
We are surrounded by hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence and robotics—hysteria about how powerful they will become, how quickly, and what they will do to jobs. I recently saw a story...
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“With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a...
At first, the new website for the collection of MIT’s influential Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) seems like a straightforward web page. But as it scrolls down, through the introductory...
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“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm”*…
Killed by Google is the Google graveyard; a free and open source list of discontinued Google services, products, devices, and apps. We aim to be a source of factual information about the history...
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“The idea that there might be limits to growth is for many people impossible...
At some level, we all know that nothing lasts forever… In 1972, a team of MIT scientists got together to study the risks of civilizational collapse. Their system dynamics model published by the Club...
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“Beware of him who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he...
NOAA/Plotting the position of the survey ship PATHFINDER, Alaska Stewart Brand once suggested that “Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. …That tension will not go...
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“By temporarily disrupting the order of the brain, a new order forms. And...
But, Zoe Cormier warns, if the means of that constructive disruption are industrialized and turned into aggressively-marketed products, we could be in for trouble… Welcome to the strange new world of...
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“There are only two different types of companies in the world: those that...
Enrique Mendoza Tincopa (and here) with a visualization of what’s on offer on the dark web and what it costs… Did you know that the internet you’re familiar with is only 10% of the total data that...
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