Review Article: Media Futures

摘要

In his 1987 book, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at, MIT, Stewart Brand provides an insight into the visions of the future of the media in the 1970s and 1980s.1 He notes that Nicolas Negroponte made a compelling case for the foundation of a media laboratory at MIT with diagrams detailing the convergence of three sectors of the media-the broadcast and motion picture industry; the print and publishing industry; and the computer industry. Stewart Brand commented: 'If Negroponte was right and communications technologies really are converging, you would look for signs that technological homogenisation was dissolving old boundaries out of existence, and you would expect an explosion of new media where those boundaries used to be'.