The metaphor is brilliant, it's simple, relatable and embodies an insight about the nature of personal computers. About "man-machine partnership" and how compu

The metaphor is brilliant, it's simple, relatable and embodies an insight about the nature of personal computers. About "man-machine partnership" and how computers amplify the human mind, the concept goes back to Douglas Englebart's work at Stanford Research Institute, namely the paper "Augmenting the Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" (1962). http://dougengelbart.org/content/view/138 http://dougengelbart.org/content/view/138 The influence is so direct and clear that I wish the Medium article had at least mentioned his name.