How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future | Innovation | Smithsonian
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/15
Two decades before the personal computer, a shy engineer unveiled the tools that would drive the tech revolution
Don’t read this as a historic piece, but as the potential we are still going to experience what was not just sketched by a true visionary in 1968, but also demonstrated back then: [Archive.is] How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future | Innovation | Smithsonian.
I am including one of the pictures below by Christie Hemm Klok that shows how far Engelbart was ahead of his time: not his initial invention of an input device (the mouse) “chord” kind.
After that, read about his 1968 presentation: The Mother of All Demos – Wikipedia
Finally, watch the video below, well worth watching the more than one and a half hours.
–jeroen
Via:
- [WayBack] Alan Cox – Google+: Resharing because it’s a great piece and it would be a shame if Douglas Englebart got overlooked…
- [WayBack] Ken Harbit (Pogi) – Google+: How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future
- [WayBack] Wow, what a time to be alive… Oh wait Watch “The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)” on YouTube – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
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