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Link[1] Doug Engelbart

Author: The Economist
Cited by: David Price 6:40 PM 16 July 2013 GMT
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http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21581696-doug-engelbart-computer-engineer-died-july-2nd-aged-88-doug-engelbart

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When you are a visionary, it’s hard to get other people to see as you do. When you have a plan to save the world through men and computers working together, as Doug Engelbart had, it’s hard to enlist the guys at the water-cooler to take part in the crusade. They called him kooky, and laughed at him for doing weird stuff.

Link[2] The Ideas Behind Douglas Engelbart's Ideas

Author: Brad Neuberg
Cited by: David Price 6:42 PM 16 July 2013 GMT
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http://blog.codinginparadise.org/2013/07/the-ideas-behind-douglas-engelbarts.html

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Silicon Valley can sometimes be so focused on enfant terribles and excessive riches; Douglas Engelbart is a reminder that part of the founding story behind the computer was Doug's quest to literally accelerate human evolution. He thought that computers would be as important as writing and language have been in terms of shaping human evolution. It's important to remember this in our day of IPO this and stock market that. One of the original founders of the computer revolution wanted to literally bend the arc of human history, not just make a new social sharing game. Talk about awesome ambition :)

Link[3] Heroes

Author: Chris Dent
Cited by: David Price 6:42 PM 16 July 2013 GMT
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http://cdent.tiddlyspace.com/Heroes

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Doug Engelbart passed away yesterday, 2nd July, 2013. His influence on and creation of the modern world was immense. He was my one and only hero.

Link[4] A few words on Doug Engelbart

Author: Bret Victor
Cited by: David Price 7:15 PM 16 July 2013 GMT
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http://worrydream.com/Engelbart

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Doug Engelbart died today. His work has always been very difficult for writers to interpret and explain.

Technology writers, in particular, tend to miss the point miserably, because they see everything as a technology problem. Engelbart devoted his life to a human problem, with technology falling out as part of a solution. When I read tech writers' interviews with Engelbart, I imagine these writers interviewing George Orwell, asking in-depth probing questions about his typewriter.

Link[5] Computer Visionary Who Invented the Mouse

Author: John Markoff
Cited by: David Price 7:52 PM 16 July 2013 GMT
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/technology/douglas-c-engelbart-inventor-of-the-computer-mouse-dies-at-88.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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Douglas C. Engelbart was 25, just engaged to be married and thinking about his future when he had an epiphany in 1950 that would change the world.

Link[6] Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution

Author: Howard Rheingold
Publication info: 2013 July, 23
Cited by: David Price 4:23 PM 25 July 2013 GMT
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http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517341/douglas-engelbarts-unfinished-revolution/

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The pioneering Doug Engelbart invented things that transformed computing, but he also intended them to transform humans.

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