Robert Scoble does an interview with Douglas Englebart over dinner (the background noise is distracting as Mr. Englebart has a soft voice).
It’s a fascinating review and history of the ideas that Doug and his team developed that later became widespread. Mr. Englebart is an interesting guy who doesn’t seem to have much ego about his accomplishments – he’s fascinated by ‘how can we make the computer easier and more useful for people to use?’ Among the ideas that he and his team first developed were the mouse, cut and paste, hyperlinks, client – server computing, remote viewing and manipulation of a computer…
[View Douglas Engelbart – Inventing the Mouse]
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Norwegian descent. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse (in a joint effort with Bill English); as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world’s increasingly more urgent and complex problems (which Horst W. J. Rittel and others since have called wicked problems). [Wikipedia]
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