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'''Starlab NV/SA''' was a multidisciplinary, blue sky research institute established to serve as an incubator for long-term and basic research in the spirit of Bell Labs, MIT Media Lab, Xerox PARC, and Interval Research. The lab was intended as a “Noah's Ark,” a utopian environment for some of the world's most brilliant and creative scientists, researchers and engineers.<ref name=":0">[http://youtube.com/watch?v=0X_HDSQXMI0 Starlab Discovery Channel Special]</ref>

Starlab alumni who have gone on to play prominent roles in the contemporary cryptocurrency arena include [[SolarCoin]] inventor [[Nick Gogerty]] and commercial astronaut [[Christopher Altman]], [[SolarCoin]] chief scientist. Under support from the SolarCoin Foundation, Gogerty and Altman went on to create the multibillion dollar [[ElectriCChain]] ecosystem together with solar advocates [[Luke Johnson]] and [[François Sonnet]].<ref>[http://www.space-time.info/starlab/StarlabArchive.html Starlab Archive]</ref>

== Multidisciplinary blue-sky research ==
At its peak, Starlab employed over 130 scientists from thirty-six nationalities. Starlab projects included art, artificial intelligence, biophysics, consciousness, emotics, intelligent clothing, materials science, protein folding, neuroscience, new media, nanoelectronics, quantum computation, quantum information, robotics, stem cell research, theoretical physics—e.g., the possibility of [[Christopher Altman|time travel]]—transarchitecture and wearable computing. These research lines were grouped under the acronym “BANG,” or Bits, Atoms, Neurons, Genes, later adopted by MIT Media Lab in 2002.<ref>[http://www.quantumbionet.org/eng/index.php?pagina=97 Remembering Starlab]</ref> The lab sponsored and collaborated with other labs and universities, organizing several international conferences and open research symposia.

== SolarCoin ==
In 2014 Starlab alumnus [[Nick Gogerty]], with Joe Zitoli, introduced [[SolarCoin]] in a white paper on the creation of an energy-backed currency.<ref>Gogerty, Nick and Zitoli, Joseph, [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1802166 DeKo: An Electricity-Backed Currency Proposal] (January 4, 2011). Available at SSRN: [https://ssrn.com/abstract=1802166 https://ssrn.com/abstract=1802166] or [http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1802166 http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1802166]</reF> In January 2016, Gogerty and fellow Starlab alumnus, [[SolarCoin]] chief scientist, commercial astronaut [[Christopher Altman]] went on to create the [[ElectriCChain]] ecosystem together with solar advocates [[Luke Johnson]] and [[François Sonnet]].<ref>[http://www.space-time.info/starlab/StarlabArchive.html Starlab Archive]</ref>

ElectriCChain is the distributed ledger and self-organizing, decentralized swarm intelligence, Internet of things (IoT) that forms SolarCoin's blockchain backbone. The initiative was launched with the mission of accelerating our transition to a [[post-scarcity economy]] by encouraging solar energy to initiate the energy [[singularity]]—the transition from fossil fuels to a sustainable, renewable energy-based economy.

Outside of [[SolarCoin]], much of the intellectual property generated by Starlab research projects was purchased by investors or continued at university and research centers worldwide. Philips purchased the intellectual property rights to intelligent clothing project i-wear, which won the Avantex 2000 Innovation Prize. Bioprocessors, a biotechnology spinoff, transitioned to Silicon Valley. An IPTV license continues to generate revenue under an anonymous purchaser. ''Pajamanation'', a global marketplace for outsourcing microjobs, launched in fifty countries in 2006.

Starlab was frequently cited by the international press.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1092422.stm BBC News - SCI/TECH - Clothes that do the thinking]</ref><ref>[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v412/n6842/full/412006b0.html Nature]</ref><ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/11/22/etime.tech/index.html| CNN.com]</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/europe/digital/2001/archive/022800_newpcs.html TIME]</ref><ref>[http://www.fastcompany.com/roadshow/2000/060200.html Fastcompany]</ref><ref>[http://www.space-time.info/starlab/LeMonde.html Le Monde interactif: Starlab, la start-up belge qui se voulait plus grosse que le MIT]</ref><ref>[http://www.cnet.com/4520-6022_1-102091-1.html Tech Culture]</ref><ref>[http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010402010132&query=Starlab|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010823073007/http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010402010132&query=Starlab EUROPEAN INNOVATION: Flying robots, time machines and 'intelligent' clothing are among the ideas that have emerged from Starlab, the Brussels-based 'blue sky' research centre]</ref><ref>[http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/science/starlab010409.html Radio Netherlands]</ref><ref>[http://www.morgenweb.de//service/archiv/artikel/401800781.html Archiv - morgenweb]</ref><ref>[http://www.hoise.com/vmw/99/articles/vmw/LV-VM-02-99-6.html Next millennium's research and technologies showcased at Starlab's inaugural conference]</ref><ref>[http://www.admiroutes.asso.fr/larevue/2001/12/starlab.htm Robotique, vie artificielle, réalité virtuelle: La revue mensuelle n°12, par Jean-Paul Baquiast et Christophe Jacquemin-Visites virtuelles Starlab]</ref><ref>[http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/dn10963-brain-activity-provides-novel-biometric-key.html New Scientist]</ref><ref>[http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/1/17 nanotechweb.org]</ref> The lab has since become subject of a theatre play at the Edinburgh Festival, a Gartner case study, and has spawned alumni forums on [https://web.facebook.com/groups/18623879992/about/ Facebook] and Yahoo!Groups.

== See also ==
* [[SolarCoin]]
* [[ElectriCChain]]
* [[Nick Gogerty]]
* [[Christopher Altman]]

== External links ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X_HDSQXMI0 Starlab Discovery Channel Special]
* [https://web.facebook.com/groups/18623879992/ Facebook Alumni Group]
* [http://www.space-time.info/starlab/StarlabPublications.html Starlab publications]
* [http://www.starlab.es/ Starlab Barcelona]
* [http://www.space-time.info/starlab/StarlabArchive.html Starlab Archive]

== References ==

Starlab - Revision history

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