What is gentrification, and is it actually a bad thing? And wait a minute, who's the cause of gentrification? These are the touchy questions that NBC's popular sitcom "The Carmichael Show" tackled during Sunday night's "Gentrifying Bobby" episode.
Jerrod, the main character in the series, debates the subject with his girlfriend, Maxine, and helps to educate his father, Joe, mother, Cynthia, and brother Bobby on whether an invasion of wealthy neighbors hurts or helps the affected community:
CAMBRIDGE – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its researchers have long been reshaping our reality. Teachers at the school and its alumni are credited with, among many other things, creating the World Wide Web (which brought you this article), email, microprocessors, positron emission tomography, or PET, medical scans and even Bose audio speakers.
It's hard to overstate the Institute's importance in both creating many of the modern world's key technologies and in using science to better understand humanity and its needs. Today, MIT's Senseable City Laboratory continues those traditions by taking innovation to the streets, literally.
