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From: rsalz@papaya.bbn.com.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: The MIT Media-Lab
Message-ID: <190@papaya.bbn.com>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 12:15:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: papaya.190
Posted: Sat Sep 26 12:15:05 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 11:51:41 EDT
Reply-To: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
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Summary: Coderre, you must be here -- speak up!

Anyone have contacts at the MIT Media Lab (err, Arts and Media Technology
Center?  I forget the newspeak name)?  They tried to build a real air
guitar, but couldn't get enough resolution from the funky rings you had
to wear.  They've got real air drums, tho.

One of the (perhaps unstated) goals of the place is to bend computers so
that they interface more easily with people.  If that's not one of the
underpining of C-punk, then I'll burn my Neuromancer (the early edition,
by Dickson).

In re a claim by Maroney, I don't know if he'll be dead before it happens
(and I tend to think I might prefer to be, meself), but if C-punk becomes a
real lifestyle, one of its spawning grounds will have been this MIT
playground.

Interested parties who can't make a visit should check out the new book,
"The Media Lab," by Stewart Brand.  (Yah, of "access to tools" fame.)
	/r$
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