Douglas Engelbart’s Vision

Forty years ago, a Silicon Valley engineer named Douglas Engelbart made a presentation so influential that computer scientists now call it “the mother of all demos.”

More than a mere product demo, it was a down payment on an ambitious idea: that networked computers could help groups of people work together more effectively, raising the collective intelligence of the human race and making it possible to solve some of our most pressing problems, including pollution, famine, disease, and war. More…

(Source: http://blog.wired.com)

Twenty Years Later, The Web Is Finally Turning Into a Computer

(Source: TED.com)