50 Years Later, We Still Don't Grasp the Mother of All Demos
50 Years Later, We Still Don't Grasp the Mother of All Demos
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 10, 20187m 22s
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Show Notes
Doug Engelbart was the first to actually build a computer that might seem familiar to us, today. He came to Silicon Valley after a stint in the Navy as a radar technician during World War II. Engelbart was, in his own estimation, a “naïve drifter,” but something about the Valley inspired him to think big. Engelbart’s idea was that computers of the future should be optimized for human needs—communication and collaboration.
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