9 MIT Media Lab Innovations that Changed the Future

From touchscreens to E ink and GPS to Guitar Hero, some of today’s most popular technologies all originated from the same place: the MIT Media Lab. To celebrate its 30th anniversary current and former directors count down the nine most influential innovations to come out of the future-forward lab.
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9 MIT Media Lab Innovations that Changed the Future
Starring: Nicholas Negroponte and Joi Ito

[@JavierISampedroTNF]

Really admire this people and we must thank for all their research into some of today´s products.

[@robinson2847]

Very amazing to see how great minds assembled are able to make great things

[@trenzinhodaalegria8012]

MIT came up with the lightpen touchscreen, IR touchscreen and resistive touchscreen. But not the capacitive touchscreens that are used nowadays in smartphones and tablets. Surprisingly the capacitive touchscreen came from the CERN labs even though CERN's main goals are related to nuclear research.

[@dr.roberthelm8886]

of the Universe: Why 10 people gave the Media Lab thumbs down

[@AlexParr]

I expected Scratch to be on here. Sure enough, I was right. Scratch FTW!

[@yaswanth163]

Anyone please tell me the project shown at 3 :26.

[@Degotelo]

So do they hold patents to all of those? Does that mean they are crazy rich?

[@trenzinhodaalegria8012]

Except GPS because they thought that nobody wanted it. And also they don't hold patent over the capacitive touchscreens used in smartphones and tablets nowadays which actually came from the CERN laboratory. They do however hold patents over the other types of touchscreen such as resistive, lightpen and infrared. Despite all those patents they are not extremely rich, the corporations that provide the end-user products are much more rich. But at the same time the laboratories have a much safer position in the market, it's actually a lot easier for a company that makes general consumer products to quickly lose money. Not to mention MIT's Lincoln lab is actually one of the most important labs from the US. The Media Lab is newer and was made to place more focus on consumer technologies I think. While the Lincoln Lab technologies not necessarily become accessible to the public. There are many Lincoln lab technologies that were never intended to make their way to consumers such as 3D CAD which took 32 years to become available to ordinary people.

[@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587]

eink is my fave

[@robertbennet8814]

Is it true a MIT media lab employee, produced a 9/11 film showing a plane strike the South Tower?

[@AtomicBl453]

One does not simply "change" the future for the future is not set.

[@plussizeinsider1237]

+Freeze I agree with you.

[@yassinemotaouakkil3530]

the future is here, it's just unevenly distributed.

[@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587]

ah

[@cansacan7534]

How can future be changed? Something that exists ahead of time is changed in the past?

[@saritadalwani7847]

I'll do my undergrad here :)

[@abhishekpatawari6871]

Are you selected?

[@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587]

I won't :(

[@MegaMan64]

Anyone at the 44 club?XD

[@timw3294]

Sorry, what is touch screen? i live under a rock.

[@Mr-R.R.]

+Timothy Wilbert same here

[@tomorih]

+Timothy Wilbert That's the glass in front of a candy shop. It is touched by many kids!

[@kabyamtalukdar3066]

@@tomorih 😂🤣🤣

[@MegaMan64]

lol first

[@Mr-R.R.]

+NightOwl indeed.