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The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework - 1962 (AUGMENT,3906,)

In 1968, Douglas Engelbart demonstrated a computer system called the oN-Line System, or NLS. The NLS is the source of a lot of computer firsts. Among other things, Engelbart showed video conferencing, collaborative text editing, embedded graphics, copying and pasting, and hypertext - all of it accessible through a mouse and keyboard. This event has

datagubbe.se • Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design

Engelbart finally came up with his answer: We need to create Dynamic Knowledge Repositories (DKRs), a new kind of tool that can integrate and update the latest knowledge held by a group of people and allows others to use it anytime, anywhere. Such tools would not have been possible in the printing era because paper, as a static physical medium, has... See more

Alan Chan • My Vision: A Forgotten History

The inventions unveiled by Engelbart were a preview of a world still two and three decades in the future: the mouse, interactive computing, hyperlinks, networked video and audio.

Margaret O'Mara • The Code

Engelbart laid out his ideas in a manifesto called “Augmenting Human Intellect,” which defined a field he called Intelligence Amplification, or IA.

Sebastian Seung • Connectome

The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart

Eileen Clegg

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Engelbart’s vision, from the beginning, was collaborative. His vision was people working together in a shared intellectual space. His entire system was designed around that intent.

Alan Chan • My Vision: A Forgotten History

The new hires took advantage of Xerox’s abundant resources and loose oversight to creatively interpret Goldman’s definition of “data processing technology,” pursuing projects inspired by Doug Engelbart’s ideas about augmented intelligence and by hacker culture more generally. Engelbart’s SRI operation had drifted after the great demo—investors