Mick's World

I’ve recently been reading about Douglas Engelbart’s Hyperscope (a.k.a Augment) project. Started in 1968, it was designed to perform many of the internet tasks such as hyperlinking and email that we use today. Engelbart and his team were far ahead of their time. Engelbart was also the inventor of the mouse - "X-Y position indicator for a display system", and was one of the first nodes on the internet.

Brad Neuberg has recently joined the team to recreate the project for online use. After introducing hyperscope, Brad posts a screencast demonstrating how the Augment works. It was interesting to watch the screencast after watching the original Mother of All Demos video.

It will be interesting to follow the progress of this project and actually use it once released to the public. As stated in Brad’s screencast there are features of the Augment system that have still not yet been implemented into mainstream internet or hyperlinking systems. It’s amazing that someone (Engelbart) was thinking that far ahead and it’s taken this long to catch up.