AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.

Five of the essays collected here emerged from Marvin’s participation in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project, a massive effort to put computational technology in the hands of the world’s children.
The mission of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child. – OLPC website (archive))
Marvin saw this as an opportunity to fix some of the ingrained bad habits of the educational system. For instance, essay 5 opens with the suggestion that the educational focus on broad general education is misplaced, and children would be better served by a system that allowed them to specialize and dive into a single topic they cared about deeply.

OLPC

13 Jul 2025 - 21 Jul 2025

I almost got sucked into this project, but thankfully didn't get very involved (Negroponte and I have a tense history) I did write some proposals for it.