Doug Engelbart Institute posted a link to videos and transcripts of the Oct 1995 Brown / MIT Vannevar Bush symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of AWMT:

Doug Engelbart Institute posted a link to videos and transcripts of the Oct 1995 Brown / MIT Vannevar Bush symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of AWMT: "As We May Think: A Celebration of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Vision, An Examination of What Has Been Accomplished, and What Remains to Be Done" Excellent talks and panels with Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, Andy van Dam, Alan Kay, Tim Berners-Lee, Paul Kahn, Lee Sproul, Raj Reddy, Michael Lesk, Bob Kahn, and others. Douglas Adams was the dinner speaker (great talk, unfortunately no video or audio record). http://www.dougengelbart.org/events/vannevar-bush-symposium.html http://www.dougengelbart.org/events/vannevar-bush-symposium.... "The event was in fact an exhibition of Bush's legacy, a self-referential, interweaving (intertwingling, Ted Nelson would say) of all the themes - social, technological, and psychological - from Bush's paper. In the course of two days it became very clear how deep and ambitious - socially and culturally - Bush's most central ideas were. At every turn we were reminded that Bush was writing about how fundamentally new intellectual practices could change the entire landscape of human social life. Bush's vision was not just about hypertext, or data management, or information retrieval, let alone about microfilm or calculating machines; rather, it was about extending the power of human beings by giving them radically new ways of working together. The goal of fundamentally changing how we work in order to address pressing human problems continued to be central throughout the development of Bush's legacy in the '60s and '70s, most obviously in the work of Engelbart, Nelson, and Kay. Its continued evidence throughout the symposium - even (perhaps most notably)in the presentation of Tim Berners-Lee, the youngest speaker - and the warm response of the audience made it clear that this optimistic social agenda still resonates. It seems that we are not too jaded, skeptical, or post-modern to believe, 50 years later, that technology can bring us 'a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge', one that will promote 'the application of science to the needs and desires of man' ('As We May Think')." from http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/Bush_Symposium_Interact.html http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/Bush_Symposium_Interact.html