Computer-Augmented Intelligence

We have just had the 40th anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos, the day when Doug showed the mouse that everybody knows about in public for the first time as part of the oN-Line System (NLS). It is not so widely known how much more Doug demonstrated that day. He started out with windows, graphics, structured text editing, hypertext, video chat, and much more that became the foundation of all Graphical User Interfaces by way of Alan Kay’s Smalltalk at Xerox, and the Apple Lisa and Macintosh.

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