Tom Wolfe called it the “electric Kool-Aid acid test.” The psychedelic experience wasn’t just about getting high, it was about breaking linear time. Past, present, future bleeding into each other. Continuity dissolved.

Ted Nelson imagined documents that remembered their connections, that carried context forward, that let you navigate meaning instead of just consuming it. Click a link and the path remembers where you came from.

AI needs the same thing. Not just memory, but continuity. Not just recall, but coherence across time.

What Electric Wolfe Marshmallow Hypertext is

An evolving composition. Part R&D lab, part archive, part trip report from a corner of AI infrastructure nobody’s mapping.

Field notes. Experiments. Runtime fragments. Dispositional modeling. The cultural residue that accumulates when you design intelligence differently.

The work lives between engineering and anthropology: how AI can know what is said, why it matters, and what that means for building the next generation of systems.

AI Architecture: Presence Engine™

A runtime and Human-Centric AIX™ (AI Experience) that doesn’t reset. It remembers what you said, adapts to how you work, and continues with you instead of starting over. Built around continuity, privacy, and emotional coherence instead of scale and token limits.

The academic community is paying attention

My research is archived on Zenodo and backed by Dr. Michael Hogan at University of Galway (top 2% globally in cognitive neuroscience research).

Douglas Rushkoff (Team Human) recently supported:

“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