MIT media laboratory: a view after ten years

Abstract

The Laboratory’s charter is to invent and creatively exploit new media for human well-being and individual satisfaction, without regard to present-day constraints. We employ supercomputers and extraordinary input/output devices to experiment with today, with the notion that these will be commonplace tomorrow. The not-so-hidden agerda is to drive technological inventions and break engineering deadlocks with new perspectives tad demandhg applications. The Lab explores issues in a bread mnge of new information technologies including: advanced digital television, electronic publishing, portable computing and communication, artificial intelligence, voice interfaces, user interface design, and education-related technologies.