Simon Harper conducted an interview with Douglas Engelbart earlier this month and the transcript is now available.
“Simon: Is the state of technology, hypertext, and the web in 2004 as you envisioned earlier in your career, with regard to augmenting human intellect?
“Doug: Actually, NO! Not nearly the progress toward Augmenting our Collective IQ; and perhaps worse, not nearly the perception of size and importance of the potential gain that’s there to pursue—nor, I might add, not nearly the concern about how critical to civilization’s survival and enrichment such gains would be.”
Better yet, it appears that most of Engelbart’s papers are available on the Bootstrap Institute site.
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