Might he have been talking about Douglas Englebart's "Augmenting Human Intellect" project? (which invented the mouse as well as provided the foundation of GUIs

Might he have been talking about Douglas Englebart's "Augmenting Human Intellect" project? (which invented the mouse as well as provided the foundation of GUIs, hypertext, and the Internet -- although any amplification of intelligence is debatable.)