From augmentation to articulation.
Five decades of intellectual history. Four eras. One continuous lineage from the founding work of cybernetics and intelligence augmentation to the contemporary articulation of HI-Centric-AI as a working discipline.
Four eras. Two halves of one lineage.
The first two eras prepared the ground. The latter two articulate what was prepared. Read down to see the inheritance stack into the contemporary moment.
The inherited ground.
Four decades of preparation. Augmentation research, HCI, distributed cognition, situated action. Computation integrated into human practice across medicine, finance, science, and law — without being framed as a discipline of its own.
Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center; the Xerox PARC tradition; the rise of human-computer interaction as a field. Computation comes to be understood as something built around human work rather than something that replaces it.
Read →HCI matures into an empirical discipline. Distributed cognition, situated action, the network era. Computation becomes integrated into human practice across medicine, finance, science, and law — without yet being framed as a discipline of intelligence augmentation.
Read →The articulation.
Deep learning emerges and the frontier era opens. Two research programs form in parallel — autonomous AI pursuing performance, human-centered AI pursuing principled design. From that ground, HI-Centric-AI is articulated as a working discipline.
Deep learning emerges and quickly dominates. Two parallel research programs form: autonomous AI pursuing model performance and human-centered AI pursuing principled design. The intellectual ground for HI-Centric-AI matures even as the discipline itself remains unarticulated.
Read →HI-Centric-AI is articulated as a discipline of methodology, philosophy, and applied practice — extending the older lineage into the contemporary moment. The discipline is offered as something to be inherited and extended.
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