#1960s (8)

Engelbart's SRI report laying out a systematic program for using computers to raise human problem-solving capability.

Engelbart's SRI report laying out a systematic program for using computers to raise human problem-solving capability.

Licklider's foundational vision of humans and computers as coupled partners, not master and tool — the conceptual seed of interactive computing.

Licklider's foundational vision of humans and computers as coupled partners, not master and tool — the conceptual seed of interactive computing.

Licklider's memo naming a shared, interconnected community of computers — a rhetorical precursor to the internet.

Licklider's memo naming a shared, interconnected community of computers — a rhetorical precursor to the internet.

Licklider and Clark sketch real-time, interactive use of computers and gesture toward an 'Intergalactic Computer Network' of connected machines.

Licklider and Taylor argue that networked computers will become a medium for human communication and community, not just computation.