The reason for the downfall of SRI, the company led by Engelbart to develop NLS, can be discovered in The Network Revolution – confessions of a computer scientist (1982) by Jacques Vallée, specifically in chapter 5, “Knowledge Workers of the World, link up!”: <https://books.google.com/books?id=6f8VqnZaPQwC&pg=PA97>
It contains a partial and anonymized (all names have been changed) retelling about the initial decline of SRI. To summarize, they all became entranced with the cult-like Erhard Seminars Training, except the smart people, who left because they didn’t like it.
It contains a partial and anonymized (all names have been changed) retelling about the initial decline of SRI. To summarize, they all became entranced with the cult-like Erhard Seminars Training, except the smart people, who left because they didn’t like it.