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The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T.
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Due to hitting GR length limits, I've put a revised & expanded version of this review on my website: "Timing Technology: Lessons from the Media Lab".
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January 1, 2010
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July 21, 2012
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Nov 01, 2014 02:29AM
I have a copy of this book purchased many years ago but still unread- you have inspired me to read it !
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I read and loved this back when it came out!
You might find it even more interesting to reread now after all these years, then.
A great review Gwern. Will read the book definitely.
Wow great review! I randomly stumbled upon this book at a retirement community when I was on vacation at my in-laws place in florida last week. Pretty excited to dig in. I enjoyed Being digital by negroponte a few years back.
More examples of ahead-of-their-time failures from John Backus: https://twitter.com/backus/status/105...
The absurdity of most startup plans: https://marginalrevolution.com/margin... (and Cowen doesn't even include Netflix)
An earlier example, Rockefeller: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... an apparently irrational bet on a dubious technological change which would have utterly ruined him and his reputation if it hadn't gone better than anyone else dreamed at the time.
