Doug #Engelbart talked about his research on the augmentation of human intellect as #bootstrapping —human beings, and their brains and bodies, will evolve along with new technology
Engelbart was interested in building the person who could use the computer to manage increasing complexity efficiently
I confess that l am a dreamer. Someone once called me "just a dreamer." That offended me, the "just" part; being a real dreamer is hard work. It really gets hard when you start believing in your dreams.
—Doug #Engelbart
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Douglas Engelbart presented his ideas to the public in one long demo session on December 9, 1968. This demo is known today as "The Mother of All Demos." If you watch the Mother of All Demos - which you should - you will notice the piano-like device sitting to the left of the conventional keyboard:
The above gadget is known as a chorded keyboard, or chorder. In Engelbart's computing environment, it supplemented, rather than replaced, the traditional typewriter keyboard.
At first glance, this device resembles the familiar stenotype. Cy Endfield's Microwriter was something rather different: a genuinely-original, alphabet-based, general-purpose text entry system. The Microwriter's use of one - rather than both - hands seems like a shortcoming, until you realize that the device was designed for maximal portability - at the very dawn of the age of personal computing! It was really intended to replace a traditional paper clipboard, rather than a typewriter:
For people on the move For a person whose job involves moving from place to place, the Microwriter is an ideal way of recording notes of interviews, inspections or orders - or preparing a report as he goes along. The contents of the memory can then be printed out on returning to the office. Or the material can be transferred on to a micro-cassette and posted back to the office where it can be printed out. images of people using the Microwriter on a construction site at a desk in the backseat of a car
In Alan Kay's metaphor, the problem with bootstrapping in Douglas Engelbart’s Augmentation Research Center was that while " #Engelbart, for better or for worse, was trying to make a violin,
most people don't want to learn the violin."
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@bosak 🧵Englebart blue numbers
How great it is to use a W3C standard link to a particular item in a report published 33 years ago in 57 year old hypertext system using a Web interface to its content created about 30 years ago.
While the rest of the world randomly trashes links created 5 years […]
A diagram of Doug Engelbarts CONccurrent Development, Integration, & Application of Knowledge process. (CODIAK). It shows three categories of information arranged in three vertical columns: Dialog Records: memos, status reports, change requests, commentary, design reviews, etc. External Intelligence: Articles, books, reports, papers, competition, supplier and customer info, new technologies, trip reports, etc. Knowledge Products: Proposals, plans, budgets, legal contracts, design specs, Mfg plans, test plans and results, etc. Arrows lead from Dialog Records to Knowledge Products and in the opposite direction, indicating how dialog leveraging external intelligence both supports creation of knowledge products and is a primary subject of a continuing stream of dialog.
@bosak It looks like they already have that document logged.
It contains a copy of one of my favorite Doug Engelbart papers and diagrams!
I think of an Engelbart style Journal as a space to record, cite, and link dialog, external references, and knowledge […]
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Quote sobre la primera hoja de cálculo de la historia (leído en Los Innovadores by Walter Isaacson) #Bricklin #Engelbart #HojaDeCalculo #VisiCalc emeshing.blogspot.com/2025/04/quot... via @emeshing.bsky.social
doug engelbart cartoon history
#engelbart #augmentedintelligence #motherofalldemos #onlinesystem
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/me swoons
I was trying to figure out how to humbly ask for the prompt info. This is such an amazing project, such an direct #Engelbart ian #AugmentIntellect by making visible effort.
Basic prompt (also a detailed in directory):
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Douglas Engelbart, inventeur de la souris d'ordinateur (entre autres)
Le 30 janvier 1925 naissait Douglas #Engelbart. Ce nom ne vous dit peut-être rien, mais c'est rien moins que l'inventeur de la #souris ! 🖱️
A web page essay on ‘What Motivates Doug Engelbart’ starting with a long quote from Engelbart’s 1962 ‘Augmenting Human Intellect’ report. By "augmenting human intellect" we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems. 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 insoluble. And by "complex situations" we include the professional problems of diplomats, executives, social scientists, life scientists, physical scientists, attorneys, designers--whether the problem situation exists for twenty minutes or twenty years. We do not speak of isolated clever tricks that help in particular situations. We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain where hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human "feel for a situation" usefully co-exist with powerful concepts, streamlined terminology and notation, sophisticated methods, and high-powered electronic aids. 1a1 Quote from Doug Engelbart Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223, October 1962
Douglas Engelbart
Born 100 Years Ago Today
30 Jan 1925
#Engelbart #hypertext
A quote from Engelbart’s ‘Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework’, SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223, October 1962
Along with links to video and historical sources on […]
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Happy Mother Of All Demos to those who celebrate. #engelbart
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/MotherOfAllDemos
#Engelbart didn't seek to invent tools. Clear intent from wide-angle #research is what ensured decisive #innovation: http://j.mp/11j5REu
