
The Infinite Retina
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Doug Engelbart had a frustrated spirit when we first talked with him in 2005. If you search YouTube for “mother of all demos,” you’ll find the video of him demoing something that looked like the Macintosh. He guided a mouse cursor across the screen and showed off many new computing concepts that would dramatically change how we view and use computing. The official title was “A research center for augmenting human intellect,” way back in 1968. Almost 20 years later, the Macintosh was born from many of the ideas he demonstrated in that demo. He later went on to win many awards and accolades, but he was particularly proud of the National Medal of Technology, the United States’ highest technology award, yet here, he was sharing his frustration that he wouldn’t be around to help humans see what he told us would be his most important work: augmenting human beings. In other words, giving them the tools to make themselves...
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