Media Lab’s Storied History of Courting the Rich and Powerful
How a tight-knit group of elites shaped the Media Lab
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5 min readSep 8, 2019
This is a story about courting money from power. It’s about how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab was founded and funded, by whom, and how. It’s a story about Nicholas Negroponte before it was about Joi Ito and Jeffrey Epstein. And most of all, it’s a…