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#Minsky, a pioneer of AI, purportedly declared: 'We're going to make machines intelligent. We are going to make them conscious!" #Englebart, a proponent of Intelligent Augmentation rather than AI, responded,

"You're going to do all that for the machines? What are you going to do for the people?"

From:
The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen

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Joey de Villa 🪗Dec 10, 2023

Just a reminder that today — December 9, 2023 — is the 55th anniversary of “The Mother of All Demos,” the 1968 demonstration of technology that we all use today, but must have seemed like pure science fiction back then.

#ComputerHistory #history #computer #technology #demonstration #MotherOfAllDemos #Englebart #DougEnglebart #mouse #GUI

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/12/09/the-mother-of-all-demos-happened-55-years-ago-today/

The “Mother of All Demos” happened 55 years ago today : Global Nerdy

My poster from May, titled Every 13 years, an innovation changes computing forever, theorizes that roughly every thirteen years, a new technology appears, and it changes the way we use computers in unexpectedly large ways. The first entry in my list was an exception because it didn’t feature just one technology, but a number of […]

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Amin Girasol Nov 22, 2023

@tarek I've read the latter - it's great. These days I take Stewart Brand the man with a very large pinch of salt. But he was Silicon Valley's Zelig. He was involved in technical assistance during #Englebart's #MotherOfAllDemos.