Notes for W-MIT Source A-1.1.1

Notes on "Mission and History" of Media Lab

from http://www.media.mit.edu/about/mission-history

1. Future

1.1 "At the Media Lab, the future is lived, not imagined."

1.2 "Media Lab researchers design technologies for people to create a better future."

1.3 "Future-obsessed product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces work side by side to tirelessly invent—and reinvent—how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology."

2. Technology

2.1 "In a world where radical technology advances are taken for granted, Media Lab researchers design technologies for people to create a better future."

2.2 "... in its first decade was at the vanguard of the technology that enabled the “digital revolution” and enhanced human expression: innovative research ranging from cognition and learning, to electronic music, to holography."

2.3 "In its second decade, the Lab literally took computing out of the box, embedding the bits of the digital realm with the atoms of our physical world."

2.4 "...work side by side to tirelessly invent—and reinvent—how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology."