2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Douglas Engelbart's 1962 report to DARPA arguing that the most important use of computers is augmenting human intellectual capabilities — not automating existing tasks but expanding what humans can think and do — laying the philosophical foundation for personal computing.
American information technologist who coined the terms 'hypertext' and 'hypermedia' (1963) and spent 50 years developing Project Xanadu — an idealized hypertext system with two-way links and automatic micropayment — whose concepts deeply influenced the World Wide Web (though the Web implemented them incompletely in his view).