This video needs a little explaining. If you’ve ever read What the Dormouse Said, you know that Douglas Engelbart was the man who created the mouse in the late 1960’s.
He is also well-known for two important things. First, he wrote a 1968 paper titled “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework” which lays down the framework for most of the computer user interface ideas that exist today. Secondly, he made a famous presentation in 1968 with his research team where they publicly showed off hypertext, email, video conferencing for the first time ever.
Unfortunately, Englebart who is now 81, feels that many of his ideas of “augmenting human intelligence” were never fully realized. The problems we face today are on such a global scale that we must learn to better deal with the deluge of information available to us. In personal computing, the driving force has been to make everything as easy as possible. Englebart pushed for systems to improve individual and group processes for knowledge-work, which did not always produce software that was easy to use.
In our short video, we caught Doug speaking with our good friend, Brad Neuberg, who created HyperScope 1.0, an online version of the 1968 Augment system. The HyperScope project is “a browser component using Ajax and DHTML designed to replicate’s Augment’s multiple viewing and jumping capabilities (linking within and across various documents)”. It’s open source and wide open for play.
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Heads up! Not sure where you intended to point to with Mr. Gnuberg’s link but you’ve duplicated the URL for the demo at Sloan.
(Compulsively tech_docs, c’est moi!)
Thank you for sharing that.
Thanks for the fantastic segment!