TheSorcerersandTheirApprentices

Copyright © 2011 by Frank Moss All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com CROWN BUSINESS is a trademark, and CROWN and the Rising Sun colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moss, Frank, 1949– The sorcerers and their apprentices : how the digital magicians of the MIT Media Lab are creating the innovative technologies that will transform our lives / Frank Moss. p. cm. Summary: “From the former director of the famed MIT Media Laboratory comes an exhilarating behind-the-scenes exploration of the research center where our nation’s foremost scientists are creating the innovative new technologies that will transform our future”— Provided by publisher. 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory. 2. Digital communications— Research—United States. 3. Scientists—Massachusetts—Cambridge—Intellectual life—21st century. I. Title. TK5103.7.M675 2011 607.2’7444—dc22 2010052742 eISBN: 978-0-307-58912-5 Jacket ......