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Augmenting Human Intellect by Doug Engelbart

Future of Coding

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Is There a Difference Between Humans and Computers?

A number of people outside our research group here, maintain stoutly that a practical augmentation system should not require the human to have to do any computer programming. They feel that this is too specialized a capability to burden people with. And he does seem to want to support the fact that human beings are imprecise throughout all this. He wants to preserve that quality of everybody having their own different interpretations and their own way of of looking at things. There's lots of parts of the system that are not just about forcing human beings into a kind of robotic, technical way of framing all their thinking. If you can't programme, if you're going to be pretty trapped into existing game design patterns

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