On Dec. 9, 1968, Doug Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) performed the “Mother of All Demos” — the world debut of personal and interactive computing. It was the realization of a vision he’d developed as a graduate student in electrical engineering: that we’d one day be able to “fly” through information spaces, and that the computer would become an extension of human communication capabilities and an augmentation of intellect.
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