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I believe Media Lab is more than a "lab", it's also a place where students can build their own degree.

Eric Drexler, the "Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology" author, got his PhD at the MIT Media Lab.

>His Ph.D. work was the first doctoral degree on the topic of molecular nanotechnology

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>nanotech/grey goo, space colonization, cryonics, super AI

>futurist thinktanks/institues and similar

Sounds like a good fit for media lab since it's all fluff.

>> nanotech/grey goo, space colonization, cryonics, super AI

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. All of the things on this list are desirable and somebody has to do research for us to ever achieve them. The problem still is people trying to misrepresent the state of the art, whether in academia or in the industry.

media lab has a motto "demo or die", i don't think that's conducive to research in any way

From afar, the Media Lab has always appeared to me personally to be a place where engineers who are not good at engineering and artists who are not good at art get to burn through cash at astounding rates.

I may be wrong.

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