Don't forget that Vannevar Bush also inspired Douglas Engelbart (it saddened him that Bush would not accept his and his team's digital computer innovations). Th

Don't forget that Vannevar Bush also inspired Douglas Engelbart (it saddened him that Bush would not accept his and his team's digital computer innovations). The Mother of All Demos, by Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center (ARC) group was far ahead of its time and was a major influence on all of modern computing. It was a major and more direct influence on Xerox PARC than the also influential "Libraries of the future". Engelbart was primarily motivated by augmenting the human intellect [1]. > Increased capability in this respect is taken to mean a mixture of the following: more-rapid comprehension, better comprehension, the possibility of gaining a useful degree of comprehension in a situation that previously was too complex, speedier solutions, better solutions, and the possibility of finding solutions to problems that before seemed insolvable. Licklider also wrote: > It is often said that programming for a computing machine forces one to think clearly...it disciplines the thought process. If the user can think his problem through in advance, symbiotic association with a computing machine is not necessary. > >...many problems that can be thought through in advance are very difficult to think through in advance. easier to solve...solved faster, through an intuitively guided trial-and-error procedure in which the computer...[revealed] unexpected turns in the solution We have yet to realize the core vision laid forth in As We May Think and by other pioneers of modern computing. And if a certain group that thinks Tools for Augmenting Human Intellect are too dangerous to be spread widely has their way, we may never do so; at least not without first regressing for a substantially long time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_amplification#Douglas_Engelbart:_Augmenting_Human_Intellect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_amplification#Dou...