Editing Douglas Engelbart (section)

=== Anecdotal notes ===
Historian of science Thierry Bardini argues that Engelbart's complex personal philosophy (which drove all his research) foreshadowed the modern application of the concept of [[coevolution]] to the philosophy and use of technology.<ref name="bard">{{cite journal |author1-link=Thierry Bardini |first1=Thierry |last1=Bardini |first2=Michael |last2=Friedewald |title=Chronicle of the Death of a Laboratory: Douglas Engelbart and the Failure of the Knowledge Workshop |journal=[[History of Technology (magazine)|History of Technology]] |year=2002 |volume=23 |pages=192–212 |url=http://www.friedewald-family.de/Publikationen/hot2002.pdf |access-date=August 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316202505/http://www.friedewald-family.de/Publikationen/hot2002.pdf |archive-date=March 16, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> Bardini points out that Engelbart was strongly influenced by the [[Sapir–Whorf hypothesis|principle of linguistic relativity]] developed by [[Benjamin Lee Whorf]]. Where Whorf reasoned that the sophistication of a language controls the sophistication of the thoughts that can be expressed by a speaker of that language, Engelbart reasoned that the state of our current technology controls our ability to manipulate information, and that fact in turn will control our ability to develop new, improved technologies. He thus set himself to the revolutionary task of developing computer-based technologies for manipulating information directly, and also to improve individual and group processes for knowledge-work.<ref name="bard"/>