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From what I have gathered MIT Media Lab != MIT. The Media Lab is commonly referred to as the Remedial Lab on campus. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209442
by gadders 5y ago
From what I have gathered MIT Media Lab != MIT. The Media Lab is commonly referred to as the Remedial Lab on campus. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20944282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20944282
- blip54321 5y agoWas. Past tense. This was definitely the case around the year 2000 (and during most of OLPC). The Media Lab has mostly stayed constant. The rest of MIT ramped up hype, marketing, branding, form-over-substance, and occasionally, corruption. Today, the Media Lab is one of the higher-integrity parts of the Institute, not by virtue of improving, but by virtue of the rest of the Institute slipping.
- gadders 5y agoWell that sucks.