numbers and pictures

I just got a letter from Susan Hockfield, the president of MIT, noting that the Toot is 150 years old this academic year. A person born in 1861 had a life expectancy of just over 38 years, so from that point of view the Institute has been in existence for four lifetimes. From today's point of view, two lifetimes.

Maybe one lifetime, when it gets to be three hundred. Does anyone want to say that's impossible, a hundred fifty years from now?

Found a cool visual display at http...