I was not the one trying to make the negative points, that appears to have come from jwalsh at bigpond.net.au.
I only pointed to the http://www.openaugment.org/ site. I know that Craig Latta http://www.netjam.org/resume/, who is active on this list, did some work recently towards bringing it into the future via open source http://www.openaugment.org/download/. And I previously watched Doug Engelbart's Unrev-II (the unfinished revolution, part II), http://www.bootstrap.org/.
It seemed like you might be interested in the links. There is some important work going on.

  Ken G. Brown

>Ken,
>
>Wow, what a post this is.  I have to strongly disagree. Maybe I could agree
>the augmentation as a goal is bad but direct research is not.  I read a
>business article about the benefits of researching and plotting
>relationships maps.  This is the whole study of degrees of separation that
>has been taken up lately in business schools.  Well it turns out that by
>mapping public publishing and associations, you can learn a great deal about
>who is doing what, who knows who, and who can actually help you get
>something done.  The relationship mapping that I've been doing has been very
>beneficial.  I have a meeting coming up with a bunch of really powerful
>people and now, given the listing of who will be there I actually know who I
>should talk too.
>
>I would like to say that I understood fully what point you were trying to
>make but I guess I don't.  I suppose that you could take the same tact and
>propose a life like "Walden" and its subsistence only living and a personal
>responsibility that removes one from all public life.  You could say that
>education is unnecessary because it only pollutes the mind, and grossly
>invalidates what is important.  Education and analysis, learning and social
>responsibility are not abominations but a gift, from God. 
>
>I strongly believe although (and of course I'm speaking from complete
>ignorance of what point you were trying to make) that profit based companies
>are a major problem.  I do believe though that value based companies,
>companies that provide for a greater value and therefore receive greater
>popularity (as an example real organic farmers), should be sought out and
>patronized.  I believe that the wall-martification of business is bad
>because it directly removes economic resources from a community.  We should
>value; local economies, the environment, healthy populations, and the
>dignity of every person including workers and yes businessmen that strive
>for value over profit.
>
>If you would like to discuss this more email me off the list, to spare
>others.
>
>Ron
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of
>jwalsh at bigpond.net.au
>Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 6:57 PM
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>Cc: Ken G. Brown
>Subject: Re: Knowledge Documentation topic/relationship maps??
>
>Augmentation of the mind is another nonsense theory from SRI.
>Closely followed by similar theories from MIT.
>The end result of the theory is OWL.
>What caps the OWL series? God?
>All that augmentation has achieved is obesity of the mind.
>When will Systems designers realise that it, pragmatism, does not work.
>Sure, immediate success are not to be denied, but the body corporate is just
>getting fatter and more unwieldy.
>So much so that the immediate success becomes lost.
>Smalltalk80 is facing the same danger.
>Refactoring and Normalisation techniques are merely remedies not a cure.
>The mind does not need augmentation, least of all by computers.
>The very phrase "Back to the Future" is as much a nonsense as the phrase
>"Inventing it".
>"Back to sound Principles" is far better.
>
>
>---- "Ken G. Brown" <kbrown at tnc.ab.ca> wrote:
>> Perhaps have a look at Augment.
> > http://www.openaugment.org/
>>    Ken
>>
>> >Hello all,
> > >
>> >Does anyone have any suggestions for relationship mapping documentation?
>> >I've been keeping track of a bunch of information like people,
>> >organizations, grants, funding projects, legislation, web links ...  all
>on
>> >Visio.
>> >
>> >Does anyone know of anything that can make this easier?  Is there some
>> >system out there that will help me track and query for relationships, and
>> >display it all in a relationship map?
>> >
>> >Any suggestions would be welcome even if it's just close.
>> >
>> >Ron
>>
>>