Augmenting Human Intellect

October 9, 2014

Jeffrey on Steroids

The release of Walter Isaacson’s, The Innovators’ this week offers an ideal backdrop for tomorrow’s discussion of Doug Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect,” a text which in many ways serves as the animating heart of the New Media Seminar syllabus. Isaacson’s saga of the digital revolution — from its origins in the 1840s in the visions […]

A. Nelson Augmenting Human Intellect, blogging, collaboration, collaborative creativity, creativity, Doug Engelbart, Innovators, New Media Seminar, Walter Isaakson

October 11, 2013

Snail to Cat?

Yesterday in the seminar we kicked off our discussion of Douglas Engelbart’s work with a tribute video featuring interviews with Engelbart and footage from a conference commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the “Mother of All Demos” in 2008. Hearing Engelbart, who just passed away in July, talk about his life’s work and hopes for the […]

A. Nelson Augmenting Human Intellect, Doug Englebart, New Media Seminar