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Augmenting Human Intellect by Doug Engelbart

Future of Coding

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What Is the Next Stage in Human Intelligence?

The idea here is that our our language is actually affected by our artifects. And so what he actually thinks is that his idea for augmenting human intelligence is to give us our next evolution in human capability. So the first is this concept manipulation, where we can abstract thoughts in our head. The next is symbal manipulation, where rather than having to look at all the sheep and belike, ye, i think they're all here, we can have a number that represents it, like 27. Then there's manual, external sym symbol manipulation. And then finally we get to what he is proposing, which is automated external symbol manipulation. This will bring us in to the point where

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