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Howard Rheingold
American writer and educator (b. 1947) who taught Engelbart's 1962 paper for years at Stanford and became the principal interpreter of augmentation for a generation of readers who would not otherwise have encountered it.
Howard Rheingold is the author of Tools for Thought (1985, expanded 2000), the book that introduced Engelbart's work to a generation of readers, and Net Smart (2012), which extended Engelbart's Training component of H-LAM/T into practical guidance for navigating information abundance. He taught Engelbart's 1962 paper for years at Stanford, making the connection explicit between Engelbart's framework and the evaluative skills — what Rheingold called "crap detection" — that augmented work demands. His remark that Engelbart "marveled that people carry around in their pockets millions of times more computer power than his entire lab had in the 1960s, but the less tangible parts of his system had still not evolved so spectacularly" has become the canonical summary of what the industry adopted and what it left behind.
In The You On AI Field Guide
Rheingold's reading of Engelbart emphasized the integration Engelbart insisted on — the fact that NLS was not a collection of features but a system designed to