Douglas Engelbart - Inventing the 21st Century

MP3 download

Douglas Engelbart invented the 21st Century! In 1968 his Mother of All Demos showed how together work in social networks, using computer screens with graphic user interface, mouse, word processors, hyperlinks, online document sharing and video-conferencing, as part of his plan to Augment Human Intelligence.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

In 1968, computers got personal: How the ‘mother of all demos’ changed the world
Dec. 9, 1968: The Mother of All Demos
The Mother of All Demos
A MACHINE FOR THINKING: HOW DOUGLAS ENGELBART PREDICTED THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING
The shocking truth about Silicon Valley genius Doug Engelbart
He's lauded by many for his stellar contributions but no one would fund him in the last four decades of his life.
Douglas Engelbart Institute
A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect
Doug's Great Demo: 1968
A Vision For The Future


Augmenting Society's Collective IQ
An Open Hyperdocument System (OHS)
Your Bootstrapping Brilliance™ Toolkit
Improvement communities
Improving the way we improve is a collective effort with exponential rewards. But why have so few industries embraced it?
Collective IQ and continuous improvement
How do you harness the collective intelligence of a group, solve difficult problems, and share what you learn?
Doug's Demo Sequel: 1969
GALLERY OF EPIC FIRSTS - Pioneered by Doug Engelbart and Team

Diffusion is funded solely by the fixed-income Bank of Ian, which lacks any kind of business model. Please contact me to suggest a business model. Buy from my Diffusion Science Etsy store, or contribute to the costs of producing the podcast with Paypal:

Become a Patron!