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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. huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I obviously know nothing about the history of computers. Anyone care to explain? For me it was like Charles Babbage, fastforward to Alan Turing, fastforward to mainframes.

    These elitist write-ups really bug me. Honestly, what's so hard about saying "Doug Engelbert, inventor of the *whatever*, etc.."???