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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. Re:Good grief... by citog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can read a copy of his 1962 paper at http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/EngelbartPaper s/B5_F18_ConceptFrameworkInd.html