A man, a mouse, a mission
“"Point-and-click pioneer Doug Engelbart is still going full-tilt trying to figure out ways to solve complex problems facing the world... If the name Douglas C. Engelbart ever comes up on TV's Jeopardy game show, the question doubtless will have been: 'Who invented the computer mouse?' In fact, that's hardly Engelbart's only claim... Ask Engelbart, and he says his life's work is about an even more audacious goal: trying to figure out ways to help the human race solve its increasingly complex problems...”
KMi meets with Doug Engelbart’s Pioneering Vision
KMi meets with Doug Engelbart's Pioneering Vision
“It became clear to all of us that these were prime examples of what Engelbart had long envisioned as Dynamic Knowledge Repositories, supporting the mediation and capture of dialogue, the collective updating by a distributed community of its knowledge, and the provision of advanced services that generate knowledge 'products' - flexible views onto the underlying knowledge repository.”
The Coevolution of Human Potential and Converging Technologies
The Coevolution Of Human Potential And Converging Technologies
“The convergence of nanoscience, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC) offers immense opportunities for the improvement of human abilities, social outcomes, the nation's productivity, and its quality of life; it also represents a major new frontier in research and development... In this volume, a panel of nationally recognized experts analyzes the opportunities [this] convergence presents.”
Chapter 5 - 'Converging Technologies for Enhancing Human Performance: Science and Business Perspectives,' by James Spohrer and Douglas Engelbart. See [ Chapter 5 Abstract | Table of Contents ]
The Click Heard Round the World
The Click Heard Round the World
“It was December 1968. An obscure scientist from Stanford Research Institute stood before a hushed San Francisco crowd and blew every mind in the room. His 90-minute demo rolled out virtually all that would come to define modern computing: videoconferencing, hyperlinks, networked collaboration, digital text editing, and something called a "mouse." Doug Engelbart tells writer Ken Jordan what it felt like to launch the point-and-click revolution 15 years before the Mac.”
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