50 years on, we’re living the reality first shown at the “Mother of All Demos”
“AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT, INDEED — Douglas Engelbart changed computer history forever on December 9, 1968.” ... According to Vint Cerf, widely known as a 'Father of the Internet,' Doug Engelbart was one of our farthest seeing visionaries. "[Doug] had a keen sense of the way in which computers could augment human capacity to think... The [Web] is a manifestation of some of what he imagined or hoped although his aspirations exceeded even that in terms of human and computer partnerships."
From the vault: Watching (and re-watching) “The Mother of All Demos”
From the vault: Watching (and re-watching) "The Mother of All Demos"
“Ars revisits a computing history classic through art, YouTube, and William English. /// In December 1968, engineer and inventor Douglas C. Engelbart and a team of more than a dozen engineers and staff from the Augmented Human Intellect Research Center (AHIRC) gave a demonstration at San Francisco's Civic Center Auditorium to show off what they called the oN-Line System (NLS). The demo, which lasted for about an hour and a half, became known as "The Mother of All Demos".”
Douglas Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse and so much more, dies at 88
Douglas Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse and so much more, dies at 88
“In December 1968, his "Mother of all Demos" changed computing forever." According to Vint Cerf, Doug was one of our farthest seeing visionaries. "He had a keen sense of the way in which computers could augment human capacity to think... The [Web] is a manifestation of some of what he imagined or hoped, although his aspirations exceeded even that...”
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