MIT lab living in the future

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Is American innovation suffering?  Frank Moss, of the MIT Media Lab says new technologies that could transform human life are being developed, but America is in danger of losing the edge that comes from cutting edge research.

Moss, director of MIT Media Lab from 2006-2011, tells Steve Fast that technology is currently being developed that turns science fiction concepts into reality. 

“Cyborg” robotics, artificial intelligence and button-sized computers are detailed in Moss’s book about the Lab, “The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices.”

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