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

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

Conversation at MIT in 1953:

Marvin Minsky, "We're going to make machines intelligent. We are going to make them conscious!"

Doug Engelbart replied, "You're going to do all that for the machines? What are you going to do for the people?"

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

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design

Carl Svensson datagubbe.se

https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming/

James Lindenbaum inkandswitch.com

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