Year:1998

Douglas Engelbart: More Thoughts from Cassandra
TidBITS | Dec 14, 1998 | Adam Engst
Douglas Engelbart can be credited with inventing much of the computing paradigm we all use today, but have we missed his most important ideas? Adam looks at where Engelbart has been and where he thinks we need to strategize for the future, given the accelerating rate of change: “Wouldn’t you think [an organization] would try to knock off two birds with one stone by creating products that radically improve the productivity of its own employees, with the understanding that doing so would result in products that would better meet the needs of other customers?”
Reference: This article was inspired by Doug's Turing Lecture | Slidedeck