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Switch Interviews Douglas Engelbart
noema writes "If you don't know Douglas Engelbart you don't know the history of computers. Switch has published a transcript of an intense session with him about his visions on enhancing the human intellect. He was a major player in the development of the mouse, cut-and-paste, multi-window GUI, teleconferencing and hyperdocuments. He is a well known WYSIWYG and ease-of-use critic. The Mother of all Demos is his thing too." Here's a link to the transcript itself, which is presented as a PDF.
What can I say? Parallel Universes Are Real! :)
(No it's not a hoax though - the demo that is)
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
My internal parser core dumped while reading the article, so I fiddled around a bit, replacing some words and names here and there...
.Net, Internet, WiFi, USB..).
... ah! now it all begins to make sense.
"If you don't know (Bill Gates) you don't know the history of computers. Switch has published a transcript of an intense session with him about his visions on enhancing the human intellect (by switching from the Mac to the Windows PC).
He (Bill Gates) was a major player in the development of the mouse, cut-and-paste, multi-window GUI, teleconferencing and hyperdocuments (besides COM,
He is a well known (command-prompt) and ease-of-use critic. The Mother of all Demos (which he gave during the anti-trust trial) is his thing too."
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Douglas Engelbart...Since I've never heard the name before, scanning the headlines I read his last name, and was duly frightened that /. was about to post an article which had anything at all to do with Englebert Humperdink...
He's no Ellen Feiss, that's for sure.
Now where's my tshirt.
my sig
So the moderator thinks it's redundant to call moderators morons. I think so too :)
...and I thought Al Gore invented all that stuff.
You never know.
OK, so when are you going to sell out Carnegie Hall with your mad GUI navigation skills? ;)
"If you're thinking what I'm thinking, you're right." -
I was using NLS to collaborate on a paper using my SDS 940, and it was like beep beep beep beep beep...and then, like half my paper was gone! It was a really good paper!
So I tried uisng my IBM 360, but it was like unngh...so I got on the ARPAnet, and started downloading things for like an hour. Who wants to sit on Christmas afternoon and download OS/360 drivers?
It was kind of...a bummer.
My name is Douglas Engelbart, and I invented the mouse. (Though mine had 3 buttons...)
I was going to put a sig here, but I had already submitted the message.
I'll bet he gets loads of props from the CLI lovin' Linux community.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso