Douglas C. Engelbart: The Mouse That Roared

article featured imageDouglas C. Engelbart: The Mouse That Roared
Electronic Design | Oct. 18, 2007 | Doris Kilbane
“For better or worse, your computer and its connections to information and other people worldwide were the vision of Douglas C. Engelbart. It all started as he contemplated his impending marriage while driving to work back in 1951.... Despite his 82 years, Engelbart is still working on ways to make it easier to resolve complex issues and augment how mankind works.”
See also: TOC This Issue | More from Doris Kilbane

Designing Interactions

article featured imageDesigning Interactions
MIT Press | 2007 | Bill Moggridge
“A pioneer in interaction design tells the stories of designers who changed the way people use everyday things in the digital era, interviewing the founders of Google, the creator of The Sims, the inventors and developers of the mouse and the desktop, and many others.” See the online interactive version: designinginteractions.com featuring Doug Engelbart in Chapter 1: The Mouse and the Desktop, and Interview: Doug Engelbart on inventing the Mouse

BOOK: Holistic Management: Managing What Matters for Company Success

article featured imageHolistic Management: Managing What Matters for Company Success
John Wiley & Sons | (2007) | William F. Christopher
“This book teaches us how to increase the company's greatest asset, the organization's intellectual capability, it's 'Collective IQ.' [...] Douglas Engelbart, the patron saint of the computer industry, advocates continuously increasing "collective IQ" to expand the company's "capability infrastructure." [...] offers a structure and direction of work that can increase collective IQ.”
See Also: Book Overview | TOC | Chapter Summary

Collective IQ & Human Augmentation

article featured imageCollective IQ & Human Augmentation - with Doug Engelbart
Stranova | Apr 4, 2007 | Brad Reddersen
“In this podcast, learn how one man's lifelong passion to create a meaningful legacy of work that could benefit all mankind – the means by which we can harness our Collective Intelligence and Human Augmentation.”

Find it Here: Podcast | Description