62 paper Writing his 1962 seminal work

What we need to cover: The significance of the 62 paper: Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework

For him, in framing the vision and for those who helped him build it as well as others.

Mood: The mood of this paper is probably one of concentration and dedication, as he puts his philosophy down on paper. Amid bureaucratic nonsense.

He spent the next two years formulating a conceptual framework for a new discipline that became the guiding force for his work

This (now seminal) paper simply and clearly states the goal of his work, to augment human intellect: By "augmenting human intellect" we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems. This is important, simply because man's problem-solving capability represents possibly the most important resource possessed by a society. The other contenders for first importance are all critically dependent for their development and use upon this resource.

Background: Hmm. Just the paper & the way it got written, plus maybe its importance.

Interviewee's: Cannot think of any.

Visuals: Maybe this should be filmed by his desk, as if he is writing it kind of? Lots of Doug thinking shots, close up of eyes, hand on mouse, using computer etc...

: By 1959 he had enough standing to get approval for pursuing his own research. He spent the next two years formulating a conceptual framework for a new discipline that became the guiding force for his 1962 seminal work, "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework."

It was not enough to cover him full time, but by 1960 SRI began pitching in the difference.

It was under contract prepared for the Director of Information Sciences of the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (OSR). The Directorate was run by Harold Wooster and Rowena Swanson who were in many ways the opposite of what you have come to expect of administrators, let alone military administrators.

They were both highly imaginative, widely read and cultivated, and enthusiastically open to new and controversial ideas. This particular guy, Harold, was sponsoring rather far out exploratory research projects. As an example he sponsored a study on how gnats could stay in a swarm (which Doug learnt about a few months later). Doug wrote a proposal. The assistant Rowena Swanson become a real staunch supporter. She helped put in a strong vote for the project would act as Doug's agent. Her boss Wooster would put proposals he liked on one side of his desk and the ones he was dubious he'd put on the other side. One of the secretaries told Doug later that Swanson would come into the office after he'd gone and move Doug's proposal into the other pile. Ie. the favored pile.

OSR paid for half the project and SRI covered the other half. Doug remembers he got a lot of real quality help from one of the SRI editors, Shirley, who got really involved in helping him with the report. Her and Rowena deserve a lot of credit for getting the paper out. The next spring, after publishing the paper, he was at MIT talking about timesharing. One of the MIT guys came up to him, very friendly, "hey gee, I read your report, very interesting, but how do you pronounce H-LAM/T?" Doug was surprised: "Hey, I never tried to pronounce it!" It showed how much Doug had been working in isolation up to this point. Ted Nelson later suggested "Hamlet".

"I can appreciate that these framework documents appear to many others as unuseably general and vague, but for me the concepts, principles and strategies embodied in that framework look better and better every year."

The genesis of most of what was/is unique about the products of the augmentation work can be traced back to this framework. The full document is online on the Invisible Revolution website.

A couple of projects came along which were closer to his intended direction.

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