After reading Bardini's excellent biography I found that Dr. Engelbart's unfortunate involvement with Werner Erhard and est was the beginning of his journey dow

After reading Bardini's excellent biography I found that Dr. Engelbart's unfortunate involvement with Werner Erhard and est was the beginning of his journey down the wrong path. It's hard to say if his ideas around Collective IQ, CoDIAK and DKR were too obtuse for practical application or the world just caught up with his ideas. In any case, it seems centralizing human knowledge isn't going to save the world after all.