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.
The name of the protagonist keeps shifting around, but "Travers" is one of them, and I certainly had a long and wearisome dispute with the director of my Institute (Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab). See Omniorthogonal: I am a science fiction character
Not sure he is fair to the Media Lab but I'd concur with his negative view of Negroponte. Ted was a visionary, Negroponte had no vision whatsoever but was good at coralling people who did and getting them funding from the powers that be.
At this point I would like to acknowledge some important friendships, particularly because I have witnessed and not resolved some deep philosophical schisms between two major, perhaps personal, influences. On the one hand, I listen carefully to Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, share their interest in understanding intelligence and learning, but seriously wonder about their emphasis on problem solving, symbol manipulation, and descriptive systems. On the other hand, I listen to Warren Brodey and Avery Johnson, share their interest in soft robots, but see no evidence of progress or even potential.