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Watching Doug Engelbart's 2004 Accelerating Change keynote, 36 years after the demo. Running notes with Claude on tool systems vs human systems, collective capability, dimensional scaling, and what a post-conversation augmentation field could look like.
Watching Engelbart's 1968 'Mother of all demos' live, in 2026. Running notes, with Claude as an asymmetric chevruta partner fetching references while I think aloud.
The conference paper that accompanied the 1968 'Mother of all demos'. Engelbart and English describe NLS as a whole system for augmenting humans working with complex information, covering hardware, the command and control dialogue, and the control metalanguage.