The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M. I. T.

Another 'gee whiz' pop account of the wonders and inevitable progress of American ingenuity and big business. The holography references featured in the book looked over-egged then, and particularly naive now. It's debatable whether any substantive or enduring elements of the future came from the Media Lab.

Many of the predictions were variations of "personalized information portals" but without discussion of the content bubble these could create. Nobody quite seemed to put their finger on the World Wide Web, exactly. A perhaps ridiculous amount of text dedicated to holography. Most interesting was/is the funding model. They've convinced companies to fund thematic areas rather than specific projects.