Tom Wolfe called it the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The point was the dissolution of linear time (not the high). Past, present, future collapsing into one continuous now.
Ted Nelson imagined documents that remembered their connections. Click a link and the path remembers where you came from.
AI needs that same architecture: Coherence across time.
Electric Wolfe Marshmallow Hypertext is part R&D lab, part archive, part trip report from an adventures in AI infrastructure.
“The cultural residue that accumulates when you design intelligence differently.”
I’m a 20+ year hybrid Creative-Engineer-Founder (B2B, Startup tech, Fortune 5).
My work lives between engineering and anthropology.
A Layer 0 AI infrastructure operating at 0.007ms. Stateful, dignity-first, and built to remember.
My research is published on Zenodo: Stateful Artificial Intelligence
Douglas Rushkoff read it:
“The impact of AI on humanity may have less to do with the way we use it than how it is built. The Presence Engine offers a way of favoring continuity and coherence over present shock and calibration. It’s an approach worth our attention.”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human