What is it like to be augmented?
Mark Bernstein revisits Engelbart's augmentation project by drawing on animal cognition, the extended mind hypothesis, and speculative fiction to ask what the subjective experience of being augmented (or of being left unaugmented) would feel like.
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10.1145/3720533.3750061
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979-8-4007-1533-4
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What is it like to be augmented?
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3720533.3750061
authors
Mark Bernstein
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3720533.3750061
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© 2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
summary
Mark Bernstein revisits Engelbart's augmentation project by drawing on animal cognition, the extended mind hypothesis, and speculative fiction to ask what the subjective experience of being augmented (or of being left unaugmented) would feel like.
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Augment, Engelbart, history, hypertext
published
2025-10-03
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HT '25 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Chicago, IL, USA
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3720533.3750061
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Eastgate Systems, Inc., Watertown, MA, USA
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Information systems → Decision support systems; Human-centered computing → Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms; Applied computing → Computing in government.
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Mark Bernstein
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2025-10-03
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