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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So they’re innovation packagers and promoters mainly. Specialists in early-stage charisma engineering in the theater quadrant, as I called it on my last podcast. That’s the sense I get.https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/technological-charisma …
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There's both engineering and community that came out of there. For engineering, the ZCorp 3DP tech was invented there, the same tech was used by a few others. FormLabs 3DP was also launched from there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Corporation …
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The Media Lab was the birth of wearable tech, and basically made AR (and VR to some extent) a reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Starner …
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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
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