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The New York Times

"According to an economic analysis by the Hamilton Project, a research group in Washington, those laid off from long-term jobs between October 2008 and April 2009 are likely to lose a total of $774 billion in earnings over the next 25 years, even if they get new jobs."
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The Economist

"While technological progress may cause workers with out-dated skills to become redundant, the past two centuries have shown that the idea that increasing productivity leads axiomatically to widespread unemployment is nonsense."
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The Washington Post

"In the movies, robots are everywhere, boxing and shooting and running and flying and generally outdoing humans at every turn. In reality, the humanoid robot has a long way to go."
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TIME- Techland

"Nicholas Negroponte, the MIT professor behind the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, is playing the role of the quirky idealist nicely. His latest plan? To drop the project's new XO-3 tablets from helicopters to locations outside of remote villages."
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New Scientist

"It lets you check the weather or make an appointment simply by asking aloud, but is Siri, the "personal assistant" on Apple's newly released iPhone 4S, really such an advance?"
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The Boston Globe

"DPD is a week-long pre-orientation program, introducing product design to incoming MIT first-year students. DPD is run by members of the MIT Ideation Lab, a mechanical engineering research group studying early-stage design processes."
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Bloomberg Businessweek

“Forget the flu shot,” wrote Men’s Health. “How about a flu cure?”
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Bloomberg Businessweek

"Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s 'Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty' won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award."
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Wired

"Researchers have discovered an underworld of genetic exchange among bacteria, one more vast than previously imagined."
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Boston Herald

"The eggheads at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the brainiacs at Harvard Business School were no match for the IBM Watson supercomputer in a local game of Jeopardy! against the machine yesterday."
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Bloomberg

"Bob Langer may be the last, best hope for aging rockers. Just ask Roger Daltrey, The Who's lead singer."
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The Boston Globe

"The MIT Endicott House in Dedham recently eliminated chemical sanitizers and detergents from its housekeeping and food services."
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NPR- On Point with Tom Ashbrook

"Ever since machines came on the scene, humans worried they would steal their jobs. They did. But humans adapted."
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Popular Science

"Bacteria swap genetic information as readily as people can share digital data — there are no cultural, political or systemic boundaries, according to a new study."
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The Huffington Post

"Businesses are getting hip to blogging and colleges in particular are starting to realize the benefits."
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