"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…."
–John Donne, 17th-century English poet

Economies are networks of businesses, just as businesses are networks of people, and people are networks of cells. Networks are everywhere, and the Media Lab’s fall sponsor event will celebrate their ubiquity by exploring how these structured interactions affect our economy, businesses, health, and even the way we understand ourselves.

A conversation between Tim Brown and Joi Ito, discussing questions submitted by the Media Lab community.

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Featuring guest Dalida Maria Benfield, media artist, activist, and scholar whose work addresses interrelated questions of media representations of gender, race, and nation; media justice; and artists’ and activists’ uses of ICTs globally. As a fellow at the Berkman Center, she is pursuing a research project on the rhetorical uses of race and gender in the online presence of ICT4D programs.

Robotic vehicles walk on legs, roll on wheels, are pulled by tracks, pushed by propellers, lifted by wings, and steered by rudders. All of these systems share the common character of momentum transport across their surfaces. These existing approaches rely on bulk response among the fluids and solids. They are often not finely controllable and complex approaches suffer from manufacturing and practical operational challenges.

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The Echo Nest has collected and analyzed data about over 2 million artists and 35 million songs. We've crawled billions of documents, parsed every phrase written about any band you can think of, and can tell you the pitch and timbre of every note in almost every song ever recorded. And all of that data in one way or another invisibly affects the music experience of over 150 million people every month through our friends and partners at MTV, Clear Channel, Rdio, Spotify, MOG, eMusic and many more.