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+title: Doug Engelbart
+type: entity
+visibility: public
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+# Doug Engelbart
+
+(1925–2013) — American engineer, inventor of the computer mouse, presenter of the [Mother of All Demos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos) (Dec 1968), pioneer of human-computer interaction.
+
+## Why he matters in this conversation
+
+Jacob calls him a **patron saint**. Engelbart is the named ancestor of the entire [[Collective Intelligence]] project Jacob is building.
+
+> "Doug Engelbart, if we get the guiding philosophy section on his Wikipedia page, you're like, 'Oh yeah, this guy is so lit.' He's like a saint and a visionary and a technologist. He invented the mouse. He did the mother of all demos. And his greatest vision was intelligence amplification, collective intelligence systems, collective IQ increase."
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+## The framing Jacob uses
+
+The mouse and the demo are the **famous artifacts**. The actual vision — what Engelbart was using these artifacts to advance — was:
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+- **Intelligence amplification** (IA, as opposed to AI)
+- **Collective intelligence systems**
+- **Collective IQ increase** as a measurable, optimizable variable
+
+Jacob's project is consciously a continuation of this. Where Engelbart had the words and the prototypes but not the substrate (no internet-scale graph, no LLMs, no markdown, no git), Jacob has all of those — and is trying to finally build the thing Engelbart was pointing at.
+
+## The succession
+
+The chain of inheritance Jacob describes:
+
+1. **Engelbart** — the original vision
+2. **[[Jack Park]]** — Engelbart's colleague; mentor to Jacob; cured his own cancer 30 years ago by building his own personal knowledge-management system
+3. **Jacob** (and a few others, the "prophets of this age") — building the next generation
+
+## "Humanity 3.0"
+
+The most-quoted Engelbart-lineage idea in the conversation comes via Park, not Engelbart directly:
+
+> "What we need as a planet to solve these issues — like COVID, like climate change, like conflict — is first to build Humanity 3.0. And what does this look like? It looks like World of Warcraft meets collective sense-making."
+
+This is Engelbart's IA / collective-IQ vision restated for a generation that has video games and pandemics as shared reference points.
+
+## What this wiki inherits from Engelbart
+
+- The conviction that **augmenting human collective intelligence** is the right place to work
+- The conviction that the right artifacts are **shared, structured, persistent, queryable**
+- A bias toward making the IDE / tooling itself an instrument of intelligence amplification (Engelbart's bootstrapping principle)
+
+This LLM wiki, hosted on WikiHub, is itself a tiny instance of the vision: a graph-shaped, queryable, multi-author, persistent record of one person's [[Sparks of Motivation|sparks]] and frameworks. Scale that up to humanity, and you have what Engelbart was pointing at.
+
+## Related
+
+- [[Jack Park]] — direct successor
+- [[Collective Intelligence]] — the vision in detail
+- [[Vision for the World]] — Jacob's continuation
+- [[LLM Wiki as Medium]] — meta on what this wiki is doing
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