Chapter 8

1962
Douglass Engelbart

• outlines several ideas for the future of computers and computer technology
• imagined and created the word processor
• invented the mouse, the window, mixed text/graphic displays, the hyperlink
• helped to establish the Internet
• worked to "augment human intellect"

I applaud Engelbarts efforts to make it easier to solve more complex problems as our societies have evolved, but I can't help but think that it is this philosophy that has led us on a race towards what's most efficient and easy, but maybe not what's best.