Author Keywords HCI vision; human-augmentation; human-AI integration HUMAN-AUGMENTATION Neo: Can you fly that thing? In the movie "The Matrix," Trinity responds to Neo right before having the helicopter's maneuverability downloaded Will such a future come? The idea that technology enhances humanity has a long history. "There may be found many Mechanical Inventions to improve GUIs were tools to realize that goal. In that regard, J.C.R. Licklider's "Man-Computer Symbiosis" [12] is worth reviewing. Here, symbiosis means "living together in intimate association, or even close union, of two dissimilar organisms.

Empowering the human is a piece of the puzzle often missing from the fast-paced tech world but remains one of the most important drivers of success and true disruption. Think about the people behind the companies creating or using the most innovative technologies--even the biggest businesses rely on human creativity and emotional intelligence as much as they rely on technological development to survive, let alone thrive in the digital age. These are all digital advancements that are discussed in the context of technology and the sheer computational power of the machine. But what many business leaders fail to understand is that machines can't solve problems alone. Machines are the enabler, but without situational context and logic, these technologies can never serve as a replacement for humans. So, what exactly does this mean for the future of humans and intelligent technology?

Many are interested in the design of intelligent machines. The fact is, despite enormous individual engineering lack design tools able to operate on such complex advances in recent years, we remain woefully planes. If which is that machines can be designed to work in anything, we should be not afraid of what we are partnership with people to extend and augment designing but rather accelerating our efforts in the human cognitive capabilities (Licklider 1960). We domain of design -- in part to design machines that have created impressive systems that can enhance can, in turn, help us become better designers. In his seminal work, The Sciences of the Of course, we have computer-aided design tools.

Man-computer symbiosis is an expected development in cooperative interaction between men and electronic computers. It will involve very close coupling between the human and the electronic members of the partnership. The main aims are 1) to let computers facilitate formulative thinking as they now facilitate the solution of formulated problems, and 2) to enable men and computers to cooperate in making decisions and controlling complex situations without inflexible dependence on predetermined programs. In the anticipated symbiotic partnership, men will set the goals, formulate the hypotheses, determine the criteria, and perform the evaluations. Computing machines will do the routinizable work that must be done to prepare the way for insights and decisions in technical and scientific thinking. Preliminary analyses indicate that the symbiotic partnership will perform intellectual operations much more effectively than man alone can perform them. Prerequisites for the achievement of the effective, cooperative association include developments in computer time sharing, in memory components, in memory organization, in programming languages, and in input and output equipment. IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, HFE-1, pp 4-11. See also: ACM Digital Library citation: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=612433.