Ned:
As someone who has been involved with all this for quite while, I'd offer
that the "model" for the Media Lab was already obsolete in US in the 1990's --
which is why they tried to expand into "less mature" geographies by using the
Internet bubble to bootstrap themselves into Ireland, etc.
this is a great question. and not just for tactical media; look at, say,
the pharmaceutical industry (no hissing, please) where one could argue that
the decades-long erosion of institutional support for longer-term research
and the focus on short-term profits has resulted in a dysfunctional R&D
en
This is resent from another list by me - sorry to people in advance if they
got this twice...thanks
jonah
There had been speculation about MLE closing or changing its funding model
for the last year or so - therefore its not a surprise to many employees
there and others in Dublin that this was
http://www.outlookindia.com/mad.asp?fodname=20050124&fname=Making&sid=1
Making a difference: Outlook's weekly profile of people who work under wraps,
beyond the laudatory limelight.
Sethu and Suku Dass
The Visual Metaphor Of Dissent
And you thought design was the preoccupation of the elite? Ask
Felix Stalder wrote:
> On Sunday, 16. January 2005 06:22, Patrice Riemens wrote:
>>This being said, the clausula that prior permission must be seeked before
>>engaging in _possible_ commercial use does not appear so much of a burden.
>>In a culture of copyright as our own, it is being routinely do
< http://www.brooklynrail.org/books/jan05/offtheshelves.html >
Off the Shelves
by Bookstaff
January 2005
Screwing the Little Guy
by Stanley Morgan
Nomi Prins, Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America
(The New Press, 2004)
After all the press coverage
[what does this tell us about the media lab model? aside from the
hype-economy that attends the media lab & the ultimate disinterest by
government to invest in institutions of the knowledge economy, does
this also say something about the limits of scale? is there a lesson
here for networks that se
