The development of SAGE by Lincoln Laboratories (a military-funded institution affiliated with MIT) allows some of its founder Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider’s revolutionary ideas to be realized: decentralized networks, multitasking time-sharing, facilitated human-machine interfaces (HMIs), machines that work with and for humans, not instead of humans, to create a human-machine symbiosis. SAGE includes 23 tracking centers on U.S. soil, connected by telephone lines, capable of connecting to over 400 aircraft in flight.
