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Re: Doug Engelbart has died

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Post by mikecane »

From the Isaacson bio of Steve Jobs:

>>>Two other occasional visitors were high school students Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, who hung out at SAIL [Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory], with an older friend, Allen Baum, who was working at the laboratory during the fall of 1970. Jobs later said that the “vibrations” he felt at SAIL would stay with him his entire life. The bewitched Wozniak rode his bike up to the laboratory from his home in Los Altos, and he later said that his experiences there contributed to his hunger for his own computer.

SAIL was one of the core places of the computing revolution, from which The Mother of All Demos by Doug Engelbart was spawned. That demo happened in 1968, when Jobs was twelve or thirteen, and influenced everything that came afterwards in computing.

Re: Doug Engelbart has died

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Post by ThomPete »

saraid216 wrote: post #72
ThomPete wrote: post #22

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Hmm so a kind of liberal vs. socialist philosophy of technology. You just gave me a new perspective on things. Thanks!

I'd suggest checking out Wikipedia, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and Encyclopedia Britannica on the term "communitarianism". It's far more relevant than applying the word "socialist" without meaning.

That depends what you put in that word. To me socialism is not a bad thing.

Re: Doug Engelbart has died

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Post by endlessvoid94 »

bdunbar wrote: post #80
endlessvoid94 wrote: post #50

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I just read whatever I could about this, but do you have any further information? I'm fascinated.

All I've got is what I wrote, and what's on NDMA's site about it. I wish I'd kept that floppy. It was a full working copy, and the printed instruction manual. I have no idea how I acquired it, at this late date. Perhaps it was sitting around in the server 'room' where I was working: lots of engineers there (including my boss) and it seems like the kind of thing he'd have been interested in.

It sounds very interesting. I just emailed NDMA to see if I can somehow acquire a copy. I'd be more than happy to pay for it.

Big ideas definitely take time to catch on.

Re: Doug Engelbart has died

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Post by DennisP »

bdunbar wrote: post #79
DanBC wrote: post #60

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May I ask what search terms you used? I tentatively thought it was "TheBrain", but that's a bit later, and I was working out if there's any link between Harlan Hugh and Engelbart.

'engelbart inspired augment software' without quotes. Which led me to the wiki page for NLS which contains the line ... "The HyPerform program sold by NDMA Inc. is a descendant of NLS and Augment." Which made my brain go 'that's it' and google confirmed it.

Looks like it's still available, on Windows for $149: http://ndma.com/resources/ndm8543.htm

Re: Doug Engelbart has died

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Post by saraid216 »

ThomPete wrote: post #82
saraid216 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd suggest checking out Wikipedia, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and Encyclopedia Britannica on the term "communitarianism". It's far more relevant than applying the word "socialist" without meaning.

That depends what you put in that word. To me socialism is not a bad thing.

To me, socialism isn't meaningfully comparable to liberalism. It's apples and oranges.

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Post by TheLegace »

One thing that strikes me really odd from the demo of the mouse, is how nervous and worried he looks. I mean I can understand the concept of computers were so foreign until people got use to it. I think he was really intimidated by the culture of people being close minded to things they don't understand.(I thing progress was more of a liability.)

Re: Doug Engelbart has died

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Post by shire »

He lived a life worth living and died accomplishing so much, this should be a motivation to us all to pursue our dreams and goals and make the most of it because this just proves how short life is no matter how great you are, death is the destination we all share.

Re: Doug Engelbart has died

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Post by ivanzhao »

joehewitt wrote: post #70

There was a book written on Engelbart's work and his philosophies which I enjoyed reading many years ago: Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing http://www.amazon.com/Bootstrapping-Engelbart-Coevolution-Pe...

I think this is a better book on him. Less history, more ideas: http://www.amazon.com/The-Engelbart-Hypothesis-dialogs-Dougl...
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