BOWN 2011
How can a digital mastermind take his ideas to the physical world?
By Mark Jannot Posted 11.28.2011 at 11:10 am 1 Comment

Virtually There Ito Skypes in to Jannot’s New York office from Boston. Dan Bracagalia

Joi Ito was an early investor in some of the most influential and successful internet properties of the past half-decade, including Flickr, Last.fm, Twitter, and Kickstarter. Now, as the new director of the MIT Media Lab, he's applying his digital savvy to innovating in the material world. PopSci's editor-in-chief, Mark Jannot, sat down with Ito--well, Skyped, at least--to find out more about how Ito plans to foster innovation and make gadgets great.

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