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Switch Interviews Douglas Engelbart

Posted by timothy on from the well-worth-reading dept.

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.

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  1. Damnit by ciryon · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I first thought this was an interview with some of the switchers in the Apple ads. Kinda... bummer.

    Ciryon

  2. Re:help me by buyo-kun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am so fucking sick of seeing the line "Get a life." These people always seem to think that if someone's life doesn't meet their standards then they obviously do not have a life. Fuck them. In my opinion anyone who puts forth this line is an utter idiot with no real conception of what they condemn others of not having

    I'm not very fond of the line "Get a Life" but only because it is so over used, nearly to the point of losing all meaning. I don't known anything about this person's life except what they said (assuming that this person is actually telling the truth, which I sincerly doubt they are) but I do know that if this person is telling the truth his life doesn't meet his own standards either. If the person wants to get help he should, if he wants a life, he should get it, if he wants to die, he should kill himself. Most importantly, if he wants to whine he should find a place to do it, a depression support chat room for instance. A /. is not the place to do so. I don't care if he wants to wallow in his angst, but if he complains about it then he should be prepared to solve it, or accept help from others to solve it. Of course right now you're thinking I'm an idiot who knows nothing about life or self-pity, but, you are wrong. I've had my share of troubles, more then my share, and they are my own damn problems, and I'm not going to rant about them unless I'm hoping to get help with them and if I do rant about them I'm going to do it in a good place and time, not a /. forum.