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Copyright © 2011 by Frank Moss
All rights reserved.Published in the United States by Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.www.crownpublishing.com
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moss, Frank, 1949–The sorcerers and their apprentices : how the digital magicians of the MIT Media Lab are creating the innovative technologies that will transform our lives / Frank Moss.p. cm.Summary: “From the former director of the famed MIT Media Laboratory comes an exhilarating behind-the-scenes exploration of the research center where our nation’s foremost scientists are creating the innovative new technologies that will transform our future”—Provided by publisher.1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory. 2. Digital communications—Research—United States. 3. Scientists—Massachusetts—Cambridge—Intellectual life—21st century. I. Title.
TK5103.7.M675 2011          607.2’7444—dc22
2010052742
eISBN: 978-0-307-58912-5
Jacket photograph by Sam Ogden
v3.1
To Professor Seymour Papert,
whose passion for children and learning appended “heart” to “mind and hand” in the MIT motto …
and who changed my entire perspective on the future of people and technology during a fifteen-minute chat on Cape Cod
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 The Power of Passion
CHAPTER 2 Disappearing Disciplines
CHAPTER 3 Hard Fun
CHAPTER 4 Serendipity by Design
CHAPTER 5 The New Normal
Photo Insert
CHAPTER 6 Living and Learning Together
CHAPTER 7 The Age of Agency
CHAPTER 8 I Am a Creator
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Preface
“We must humanize technology before it dehumanizes us.”
—Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author*
In December of 2005 I was struggling with a decision. Should I accept an offer to become the MIT Media Lab’s next director? It looked to be a dream job for a career technologist and entrepreneur such as myself, and it fit well with my desire to contribute more directly to the challenges facing society. However, I was wondering if this move made any sense at all for me, given the well-known cultural differences between business and academia that I had heard so much about.
To get an insider’s view, I called Professor Rodney Brooks, then director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Brooks is a distinguished academic in the field of rob ............

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