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This is Engelbart himself talking about that document in a video recorded in 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG3PWet8fDk&t=575 https://www.youtube.com/wa
by AlbertoGP 4y ago
This is Engelbart himself talking about that document in a video recorded in 1986:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG3PWet8fDk&t=575 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG3PWet8fDk&t=575
That video is the best one I know of if you want to hear him talk about his ideas.
What he wanted was to use computers to augment the intelligence of people, not to replace it, what he called “collective IQ” because he considered that computers were to be tools at the service of people collaborating with each other.
- rektide 4y agoUrsala Franklin talks about the Technological Society, one built of techniques. It's good grounding, imo, to analyze & think deep about Engelbartian ideas/inspirations/insights from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Technological_society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Technological_... Getting to the point about computers being tools, Ursala has a wonderful breakdown of holistic vs control technologies, identifying which technologies are at the individual's disposal as an augmentative device, and which technologies merely contain & limit systems. Alas, even with so mucn "creative" software today, there s still a strong pretense of software that intermediates, that thinks it knows, and tries to hide & cloak the real intellectual truths inside of. Interface is often an Engelbartian dishonesty.