that's the magic, that intellectual diversity. >> pelley: hugh herr is a professor who leads an advanced get from that? >> herr: you get this craziness. when you put, like, a toy designer next to a person that's thinking about what instruments will look like in the future, next to someone like me, that's interfacing machines to the nervous system, you get really weird technologies. you get things that no one could've have conceived of. >> pelley: the media lab was conceived in a 1984 proposal. m.i.t.'s nicholas negroponte wrote, "computers are media" that will lead to "interactive systems." he predicted the rise of flat panel displays, hd tvs and news "whenever you want it." negroponte became cofounder of the lab, and its director for 20 years. >> nicholas negroponte: when we were demonstrating these things in, let's say, '85, '86, '87-- it was really considered new. >> pelley: it looked like magic. >> negroponte: indistinguishable from magic. >> you are going east on main street. >> pelley: in 1979, m.i.t. developed "movie map," which predated google street view by decades. >> you are g