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In this chapter, I will argue that a worthy agenda for HCI in the next millennium is to develop tools, techniques and technology to enhance collective human intelligence. This idea is not in itself novel. Indeed, Doug Engelbart began his work with exactly this goal in mind and he continues it today (http://www.bootstrap.org/). The “mouse” was only one of several inventions as a means to this end. The idea of using technology to enhance collective human wisdom was also the central idea in Vannevar Bush’s (1945) landmark paper. Indeed, if we listen with an open mind to the oral history of the Iroquois people (Underwood, 1993), we see that they (among others) have been consciously concerned for thousands of years with developing tools and techniques to enhance collective human intelligence.
If there is not one among us
Who contains sufficient wisdom
Many people together
May find a clear path.
Paula Underwood
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Thomas, J.C. (2001). An HCI Agenda for the Next Millennium: Emergent Global Intelligence. In: Earnshaw, R.A., Guedj, R.A., Dam, A.v., Vince, J.A. (eds) Frontiers of Human-Centered Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0259-5_14
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