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It is an old habit. Even in Wiki I need to jot notes to my self or my team in a perhaps strange combination of nested outlines of thoughts containing a KeyWord? or cryptic comment. The trick for me is even after I have captured an entire creation as far as I am concerned, is to figure how to tranform the singleton words into sentences and paragraphs and turn my strange thoughtline into something other people call a document.
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is the goal created by Douglas C. Engelbart in 1957.
In December 2000, DougEngelbart received the USA National Medal of Technology for 2000, for "creating the foundations of personal computing".
There is very good article (with a silly title) written Feb 2001 in The Almanac News that fills in some of the history from 1985-2001 along with some of the things still to come from "Doug Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution" and the AugmentationFramework?.
By 1962 the "Framework" (AugmentationFramework?) for AugmentingHumanIntellect in 1957 had been refined into the AugmentationSystem? with it's two subsystems.
"Made a public debut at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, December." -- DougEngelbart 1985
Doug Engelbart's SRI laboratory computer was the second node added to the ARPAnet and in 1969 received the first message sent on the ARPAnet.
Rpt-62J: "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework," Summary Report, Stanford Research Institute, on Contract AF 49(638)-1024, October 1962, 134 pp, Engelbart, D. C. 9B1
Pub-63-Frame: "A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man's Intellect," in Vistas in Information Handling, Howerton and Weeks (Editors), Spartan Books, Washington, D. C., 1963, pp. 1-29. Engelbart, D. C. 9C2
Pub-68-ResCen?: "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect," AFIPS Conference Proceedings, Vol. 33, Fall Joint Computer Conference, San Francisco, December 1968, pp. 395-410 FJCC 1968. (AUGMENT,3954,), Engelbart, D. C., W. K. English 9C4
I have a tendency to use the phrase "Augmentation Of the Human Intellect" to describe the mission and others (including Doug) have different variations of that original quote to try to communicate the concept.
It is the HumanSystem? subsystem of the AugmentationSystem? Framework that has always been the important part of AugmentingHumanIntellect, not the ToolSystem? subsystem.
Identifing the requirement for HumanPointingInterface? in the HumanSystem? was more important towards advancing the goal of AugmentingHumanIntellect than
the ChordSet? , the Mouse
The quote is
From Workstation History and the Augmented Knowledge Workshop - 4-Dec-85
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I have been a long time advocate of the ThoughtProcessor? style HumanInterface of a Tool called More [ ref ] by DaveWiner . While More got abandoned as a product , a new DaveWiner company UserLand created Frontier and ventured off into the realm of a Scriptible ObjectDatabase that has grown over the years.
In December 1999 UserLand offered free web sites on their new FrontierManila? server EditThisPage. The offer was obviously designed to catch me and it did, so I have been experimenting with the ManilaInterface? feeling some frustrations over the constraints imposed on what features available in Frontier ThePowersThatBe? feel should be locked and unavailable to web.
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Spotted specific request that RandyKramer asked about SqueakSmalltalk versus DolphinSmalltalk from people familiar with both.