I like to arrive early, when the MIT Media Lab is still waking up. At that hour the corridors are quiet, a few screens glow in empty rooms, and behind the glass walls of the labs the robots stand still, waiting for the day to begin. From the outside, a place made of so much glass and so much technology might look cold. It is not. There is a particular warmth here, and a natural light that comes in from every side and stays with you all day, shifting slowly as the hours pass,
