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Engelbart was the head of SRI's Augmentation Research Center. My understanding is that after the ARC was sold off in the mid 70s, the new corporate owner tried
by jacobolus 3y ago
Engelbart was the head of SRI's Augmentation Research Center. My understanding is that after the ARC was sold off in the mid 70s, the new corporate owner tried to commercialize the work, stopped funding new research, and most of the researchers left. Disclaimer: I know very little about this story.
- seltzered_ 3y agoThis comment jogged my memory of a Ted Nelson video subtitled 'It all went wrong at Xerox PARC' : https://youtu.be/c6SUOeAqOjU https://youtu.be/c6SUOeAqOjU
- dav 3y agoTangent, but since there are mentions of history books in these comments, I highly recommend Ted Nelson’s autobiography. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10673124 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10673124