UNIVERSE IN 2009
Is MIT Obsolete?
On the future of invention.
by NEIL GERSHENFELD • Posted February 3, 2009 11:27 AM
Illustration by Raymond Biesinger.
Today’s advanced research and education institutions are essential to tackling the grand challenges facing our planet, but they’ve been based on an implicit assumption of technological scarcity — advances in those technologies now allow these activities to expand far [...]