eric,
i think your hypothesis is probably exaggerated; it's probably not
even a 'disagreement' about money: from the press release i gather
that they made a business plan with inflated expectations about the
business opportunities and corporate funding that was to be expected.
my guess is: the end of the bubble and general economic downturn
(they opened in 2000, so the planning since the mid 90s must have
been overtaken by reality...), together with the slow development of
the EU, plus probably false expectations about the way in which
european companies would be willing to co-fund an american corporate
research player. - though i am sure there are certainly many other
layers to this.
best regards,
-a
>The Trans-Atlantic Rift has now also reached the shores of new media??
>(or just a banal disagreement over money?)
>
>Time for a Centre for New Media Culture in Dublin with proper European
>*roots*....
>
>e.
>
>honor wrote:
>>I'm sure that you've heard about this already, but it appears that Media
>>Lab Europe - the collaboration between the Irish Government and MIT - is
>>closing its doors:
>>
>>http://www.medialabeurope.org/news/release.php?id=76
>>
>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4183561.stm
>>
>>
>>If anyone on the list has any more information (Jonah? Katherine?), I'd be
>>very interested in knowing more.
>>
>>Best wishes
>>
>>Honor Harger
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