Themes of Autonomy, Messiness, and Cross Pollination

Building 20 at MIT was a ramshackle plywood structure built in an afternoon during the Second World War. It produced game changing innovations and breakthroughs, including work by Noam Chomsky,. Jerry Levittin if I remember it rightly, on frog cognition and frog optics. The Bose corporation emerged from Building 20 wandering into somewhere where people were playing around with speakers. And so amazing things happened there - you've got this serendipitous interaction.