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Genuine question: what exactly are the major contributions of MIT media lab? I will admit my priors might be unfair,y hostile and my reaction to current travails a little too schadenfreude-ish.
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You're right though in that when I just reviewed the history of core "Maker" tech, it's not a lot of MIT: Arduino (IDII, Italy), RaspPi (UK), RepRap (U. Bath, UK), Makerbot (NYC).
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The Fab book chronicles the early FabLab movement. Media Lab alums like Ayah Bdeir, Saul Griffith, et al. would go on to be early figures in the Maker Movement. However, Make Magazine was a separate lineage via Dale / Co. from O'Reilly