In 1985, Nicholas Negroponte, along with Jerome Wiesner, Seymour Papert, and Marvin Minsky, created the MIT Media Lab. Negroponte imagined a convergence of technology, multimedia communication, and design. In the original proposal for the Lab, Negroponte drew a sketch of how the computer, broadcast and motion picture, and publishing industries had an area of intersection in a Venn diagram representing their narrow common interests. A second sketch showed how those three industries would soon be indistinguishable from one another, a prediction that quickly became reality. Negroponte said that at the Media Lab, “…new theories of signals, symbols and systems will emerge from the merger of engineering, social science and the arts.” (Brand, 1988) The Media Lab embraced polymaths and became a grand center for tinkering across the lines of traditional disciplines. The Media Lab reinvented university research and development while inspiring competitors around the world to create their own media labs.