Knowledge · Book
Amazon.com: The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T
By Stewart Brand
Explores the future envisioned by the Media Lab at MIT, focusing on how scientists are reshaping mass media to cater to individual desires and preferences.
- Kind
- Book21 books in the bank
- Published
- 1987Where it sits among everything in the Knowledge Bank, by year
- Author
Topics
Summary
About the book
Provides a look at the future as it is envisioned by the Media Lab at MIT, where scientists are retooling mass media to the desires and whims of the individual.
Related
More like this
Whole Earth Catalog: Access To Tools
Individuals are gaining personal power to shape their own education and environment, seeking tools that facilitate this process, as traditional systems have obscured real gains with significant defects. The Next Earth Catalog promotes these empowering tools.
We Are Cyberdelic
A video by Jason Silva explores themes of art, culture, future, philosophy, psychedelics, psychology, society, and spirituality, highlighting the intersection of these topics. The video is featured and available at the provided URL.
Ontological Design: Subject is Project
Ontological design focuses on designing human subjects through a feedback loop, emphasizing the need to adapt to the disruptions of technocapitalism. It frames the subject as a project influenced by social relations, behavior, and beliefs, aiming to engage with our sense of existence and reality while questioning and designing our understanding of it.
- Editor
- Not recorded yet
- Last reviewed
- Not reviewed yet
Conversation
Share your experience of it
What it was like, what helped, what you would tell someone before they try it.