Tymshare's AUGMENT heralding a new era
“Many Augment customers are writers, scientists and programmers. Very often a group of geographically dispersed researchers who are working in related fields, or on the same project, will share their findings and comments with one another through the Augment system. The operators who use the system are generally not secretaries, they are professionals and technicians who are members of a common (electronic) community. For these professionals, the Augment system is not viewed as a tool to avoid the duplication of effort, but as a technique, an environment which moves them closer to their goals through the augmentation of the human intellect.”
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Knowledge workshops are his hope
“A tool to Raise Productivity” -- To Douglas Engelbart computers may eventually change man’s ways of working almost as much as the stone axe or the wheel. But the main difference is that data processing can vastly extend man’s mental powers, rather than his physical capabilities…. The purpose of all this power is to increase the productivity of the knowledge worker — the programmer, the scientist, the manager and their colleagues.
Towards the Decentralized Intellectual Workshop
“For more than twenty years, Douglas Engelbart has been striving to work out a system that could radically change the way [we] work together. In this story Nilo Lindgren tells about the man, his dream, and the man-machine "augmentation system" that probably lies in the future of your own organization.”