In a 1968 demonstration (not the kind you’re thinking of), Doug Engelbart told us what the computer would look like in the 1990s: including windows, word processing, the mouse, and telecommunications systems. Parts of a film of that demo appear in a PBS special called “The Machine That Changed the World.” Stanford is now streaming the entire film in Real Video. (Unfortunately, in a newer version than Streambox can rip.) I hope they release the video as a whole (instead of in segments) in a format that can easily be recorded and shown in classrooms. I always worry about streaming into the classrooms because something inevitably goes wrong. (via BoingBoing).
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About 15 minutes of the Engelbart video will appear on the CD for The New Media Reader, coming from MIT Press in January 2003.
Very cool. I’ll have to check it out.
Glad it sounds interesting. You can request an exam copy at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262232278