Like Arthur, Douglas was years ahead of his time. I wonder if Arthur knew him. I am going to try and find out. His daughter Christina has written a biography about him.
Douglas Engelbart born on a farm outside Portland
Oregon; a radar technician during WW2 in the US Navy he invented the first version of the computer mouse in the 60’s that was
not widely used until the 60’s when the patent had run out died aged 88 on 3rd
July 2013.
Among Engelbart's other key developments, along with his colleagues at the Stanford Research Institute and his own lab, the Augmentation Research Centre, was the use of multiple windows. Engelbart's lab also helped develop ARPANet, the government research network that led to the internet.
As a graduate student in electrical engineering at UC
Berkeley after World War II Doug Engelbart began to imagine ways in which all
sorts of information could be displayed on the screens of cathode ray tubes
like the ones he had used as a radar technician during the war, and he dreamed
of "flying" through a variety of information spaces. Among Engelbart's other key developments, along with his colleagues at the Stanford Research Institute and his own lab, the Augmentation Research Centre, was the use of multiple windows. Engelbart's lab also helped develop ARPANet, the government research network that led to the internet.
At the heart of this vision was the computer as an extension of human communication capabilities and resource for the augmentation of human intellect.
http://www.dougengelbart.org/vision/paradigm-map.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/englebart.html
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