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.
Defined the philosophical mission of personal computing — Engelbart argued that computers should extend the human mind the way physical tools extend the human body; this goal (augmentation, not automation) shaped the entire trajectory of personal computing from the GUI through hypertext to the internet.
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