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What your cell phone knows about you

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Researchers are using cell phones to get a “god’s eye” view of people, to predict everything from changes in the stock market or to when you are getting sick.

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The Future of Medical Record Technology

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The ‘Sorcerers’ of the MIT Media Lab

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Got the Beat

Tod Machover is a professor, classical musician and inventor at the MIT Media Lab who is overseeing the design of a new class of electronic instruments. These beat bugs, shapers and other musical inventions are now used by children, handicapped adults and orchestras around the world. Living on Earth’s Susan Shepherd reports on the new […]

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The evolution of the MIT Media Lab

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John is broadcasting from our partner station, WGBH, in Boston today. He’s there to take part in the celebrations surrounding the 25th anniversary of the MIT Media Lab. Frank Moss, the Director of the MIT Media Lab, joins us.

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Can you read my mind? Technology that reads our thoughts and emotions

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Today’s guests say that when it comes to machines reading our minds and emotions, the future is now. Gary Small is the director of the UCLA Center on Aging, and Rosalind Picard is the Director of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT’s Media Lab.

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