Playing with science

1995/05/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Ikerketa-zentroak

The mission of those working at MIT or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to dream. Founded in 1985, it is one of the most important research centers in the world. The major communication and telematics companies are the main customers of MIT, IBM, Apple, Nintendo, etc. Currently, 75% of the projects being carried out in the laboratory are supported by private companies. They dream in the MIT laboratory and the industry has no problems to be a sponsor.

MIT is a research centre where the needs of future generations are anticipated and leisure or research systems developed. The basic technology generated at MIT is an outbreak that the industry will use.

According to MIT creator Nicholas Negroponte, the role of science is to overcome its era. “What we need in the future,” explains Negroponte. For example, Daily Me or the prototype of the future newspaper are already prepared. The newspaper is a model based on previous orders. These orders are the tastes and preferences of the reader. Based on this, the newspaper itself will choose: only the new tastes of the reader will appear on the screen.

Despite being the most advanced research center in the world, MIT has not exceeded the limits of artificial intelligence. Machines can't think, but they seem to understand us better. At the moment we have to settle for it.