In 1962, Doug Engelbart published what may be the most important paper in computer history. This is where he laid out his concept of interactive computing and which would lead to him and his team to invent the mouse, word processing, email, and most of what we today consider modern computing.

We still have far to go to live up to the dreams and ideas presented here.

Read the Paper

This presentation of the paper hosted by The Hyperwords Company, makers of textual knowledge management tools, inspired greatly by Doug Engelbart's vision.

See the 1968 Demo this paper resulted in

Invisible Revolution,
The Doug Engelbart Documentary

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This presentation is both Web and iPhone/iPod Touch optimized.