Similarly, in all that is going on, any company can find relevance if it is willing to work at it. Many academics think that corporate funding will be more shortsighted than government grants and that companies will want their hands on the wheel all the time. Both concerns could not be further from the truth. As soon as corporations realize that what they are doing is outsourcing very basic research, the formula clicks into place. Media Lab people are constantly challenged and egged on by companies and by each other, but never told what to do by anyone.
Love is indeed a better master than duty.
I think so. You decide when you finish reading this issue. Mr. Negroponte is a founder and the director of MIT's uniquely innovative Media Laboratory, which focuses exclusively on the study and experimentation of future forms of human and machine communication, from entertainment to education. He joined the faculty of MIT in 1966, and for several years divided his teaching time between MIT and visiting professorships at Yale, Michigan, and the University of California at Berkeley. In 1968 he founded MIT's pioneering Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank responsible for many radically new approaches to the human-computer interface.