Week 2 of the Engelbart Framework Annotation Project focuses on two excerpts from Doug Engelbart’s 1962 research report Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. Here are the audiobook recordings for Week 2. The first excerpt, Section II parts A and B, is … Continue reading
It’s a lot to take in. Doug Engelbart’s monumental 1962 research report Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework–really a monograph, and indeed a manifesto–is dense with yearning, with ideas, with analysis, and with a kind of moral philosophy devoted to human … Continue reading
This February, 2019, join us as together we read and annotate three crucial parts of Doug Engelbart’s 1962 research report and manifesto, Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. (New to the document? See “About Augmenting Human Intelllect: A Conceptual Framework, below. … Continue reading
I’ve been mulling over this next post for far too long, and the results will be brief and rushed (such bad food, and such small portions!). You have been warned. The three strands, or claims I’m engaging with (EDIT: I’ve … Continue reading
Today the father of interactive computing, the thinker whom Dr. Janet Murray called, precisely, “the Leonardo of the information age,” is 85 years old. I hope with all my heart that Doug is happy today, that he feels lifted up … Continue reading
Back in the office today after the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting, I met my first class at 9:30 this morning: Introduction to New Media Studies. Today was our first day on Doug Engelbart. In one moment, two-thirds of the way … Continue reading
Doug Engelbart’s vision, and my vision of Doug Engelbart, have been deeply inspiring to me over the last eighteen months as I became aware of his work and the context in which his work developed. Again and again I find … Continue reading
AMST 391-04/ENGL 391-94/NEXT 383-01 The Rise of Social Media Fall 2021 ONLINE—synchronous Dr. Campbell Class meetings via Zoom: MW 2:00-3:15 p.m. … Continue reading
During Lent I blogged every day. I can’t imagine I’ll keep up that pace, though that may simply be a failure of imagination on my part. But I do hope the habit of blogging regularly has settled back into my … Continue reading
For all that follows, there’s much more to be said–but if I try to say it all, the post will never be written or shared. So let’s get started with this beginning. Recently a Twitter thread emerged on the origins … Continue reading