Augmenting Human Intellect A Conceptual Framework. A. BACKGROUND3a. The conceptual structure which we have evolved to orient and guide the pursuit of increasing mans intellectual effectiveness has been des cribed in the foregoing sections in a rather general and abstract fashion. In this section we shall try to develop more concrete images of these concepts, of some of the future possibilities for augmentation, and of the relationship between these different concepts and possibilities. It must be borne in mind that a great deal of study and invention is yet to be done in developing the improved augmentation means that are bound to come, and that the examples which we present in this report are intended only to show what is meant by the generalizations which we use, and to provide a feeling on the part of the reader for the richness and power of the improvements we can likely develop in our augmentation means. Many of the examples are realizable today in fact, some have been realized and most of the rest are reasonably straight forward extrapolations into the near future. We predict that what actually develops in the new augmentation means will be consistent with our conceptual framework, but that the particulars will be full of surprises. Each of the examples will show a facet of how the little steps that the human can take with his sensory mental motor apparatus can be organized cooperatively with the capabilities of artifacts to accomplish significant things in the way of achieving comprehension and solving problems. This organization, as we have shown in Section II, can be viewed as the five different types of structuring which we outlined, where much of the structuring that goes on in the humans total problem solving activity is for the purpose of building a mental structure which in a way puts the human up where he can see what is going on and can point the direction to move next. An early paper, offering suggestions toward augmenting the human intellect, that fits well and significantly within the framework which we have developed was written by Vannevar Bush 6 in 1. Indeed, it fits so well, and states its points so nicely, thst it was deemed appropriate to our purpose here to summarize it in detail and to quote from it at considerable length. What Vannevar Bush proposed in 1. He wrote as World War II was coming to an end, and his principal purpose seemed to be to offer new professional objectives to those scientists who were soon to be freed from war motivated research and development. It would seem that he also wished to induce a general recognition of a growing problem storage, retrieval, and manipulation of information for and by intellectual workers and to show the possibilities he foresaw for scientific development of equipment which could significantly aid such workers in facing this problem. He summarized the situation. There is a growing mountain of research. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers. Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old. Scaffolding The Handbook Of Estimating And Product Knowledge Training' title='Scaffolding The Handbook Of Estimating And Product Knowledge Training' />1. PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS. Board of Agriculture London, Communications, vol I 2nd ed 1804, reprint of 1797. Repertory of Arts, Manufactures and Agriculture. By Lindley R. Higgins, R. Gear Profile Generator Autocad there. Keith Mobley, Darrin Wikoff. Welcome to the VA Office of Small And Disadvantaged Business Utilization OSDBU. Scaffolding The Handbook Of Estimating And Product Knowledge Training' title='Scaffolding The Handbook Of Estimating And Product Knowledge Training' />The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square rigged ships. Then he brought out some general considerations for hope. But there are signs of a change as new and powerful instrumentalities come into use. Photocells. advanced photography. And he points out that devices which we commonly use today e. The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability and something is bound to come of it. Scaffolding The Handbook Of Estimating And Product Knowledge Training' title='Scaffolding The Handbook Of Estimating And Product Knowledge Training' />In six and a half pages crammed full of well based speculations, Bush proceeds to outline enough plausible artifact and methodology developments to make a very convincing case for the augmentation of the individual intellectual worker. Extension of existing photographic techniques to give each individual a continuously available miniature camera for recording anything in view and of interest, and to realize a high quality 1. For the detailed manipulation of mathematical and logical expressions, Bush projects computing aids which have been surpassed by subsequent development that allow the individual to exercise a greater proportion of his time and talents in the tasks of selecting data and the appropriate transformations and processes which are to be executed, leaving to the machinery the subsequent execution. He suggests that new notation for our verbal symbols perhaps binary could allow character recognition devices to help even further in the information manipulation area, and also points out that poor symbolism. They employ a symbolism which grew like Topsy and has little consistency a strange fact in that most logical field. And. Then, on beyond the strict logic of the mathematician, lies the application of logic in everyday affairs. We may some day click off arguments on a machine with the same assurance that we now enter sales on a cash register. Then. So much for the manipulation of ideas and their insertion into the record. Thus far we seem to be worse off than before for we can enormously extend the record yet even in its present bulk we can hardly consult it. This is a much larger matter than merely the extraction of data for the purposes of scientific research it involves the entire process by which man profits by his inheritance of acquired knowledge The prime action of use is selection, and here we are halting indeed. There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene. He goes on to discuss possible developments that could allow very rapid in the humans time frame selection of unit records from a very large file where the records could be dry process photographic micro images upon which the user could add lnformation at will. Bush goes on to say, The real heart of the matter of selection, however, goes deeper than a lag in the adoption of mechanisms. Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing. He observes the power of the associative recall which human memory exhibits, and proposes that a mechanization of selection by association could be realized to considerable advantage. He spends the last two pages a quarter of his article describing a device embodying this capability, and points out some features of its use and of its likely effect. This material is so relevant and so well put that I quote it in its entirety 3a. Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and to coin one at random, memex will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory. 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