What should we invent today? : December 9, 1968

Decem­ber 9, 1968, Dou­glas C. Engel­bar­tand 17 other com­puter pro­fes­sion­als demo work from the Aug­men­ta­tion Research Cen­ter at Stan­ford Research Insti­tute in Menlo Park, CA. They had ben work­ing on this project since 1962.

It’s amaz­ing to look at where this work devel­op­ing the mouse, hyper­text, object address­ing and dynamic file link­ing, shared-screen col­lab­o­ra­tion involv­ing two per­sons at dif­fer­ent sites com­mu­ni­cat­ing over a net­work with audio and video inter­face looks and feels like today.

Look­ing at our past can be almost as excit­ing now as when it was only our future.

What should we invent today?

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