<story><title>Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework</title><url>https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bouvin</author><text>I have the honour of having met Douglas Engelbart, as well as attending a keynote he gave at a Hypertext conference. He struck me as such a gentle and wise man, and the disappointment palpable in his keynote that we, as a species, had not progressed further in augmenting the human intellect haunts me still.&lt;p&gt;Many years later, I noted in a hypertext conference presentation of my own that I thought the future would be cooler. But here we are.</text></comment>
<story><title>Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework</title><url>https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickmerwin</author><text>For anyone interested in more contemporaenous context around Engelbart&amp;#x27;s Augmentation Research Center, the book &amp;quot;What the Dormouse Said&amp;quot; closely follows Engelbart&amp;#x27;s trials and tribulations amongst the other early personal computing visionaries of 1960&amp;#x27;s Stanford and the Mid-Peninsula, leading up to the Homebrew Computer Club:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;What_the_Dormouse_Said&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;What_the_Dormouse_Said&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Homebrew_Computer_Club&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Homebrew_Computer_Club&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>