The Invisible Computer Revolution

[aceyage]

He also invented beaming, as seen at 1:25

[mexsytec]

que buena esta la güera que narra este video!!!! mamacita!!!!! quiero!!!!!

[Captnuendo]

Wow! He invented email?

[frodehegland]

Not between machines, but as a way to leave messages for users on multi-user machines.

[ultramonster]

computers (and the internet) did not serve mankind in a good way, nor will it ever.

[Gamenerd19]

are you stupid? we can retrieve information at the click of a mouse, and communicate with people all around the world very easliy.

[ultramonster]

thats right but i think that text and voice chatting is just a very primitive form of real interaction with other people.

but thats not the worst part; for many people a computers serves for entertainment, leading to a new way of living: you watch others acting instead of acting yourself.

i could be wrong, though...

[Captnuendo]

?? You've gotta be kidding right? Computers served mankind in many ways.....

[mitternacht07]

Mr. Dough Engelbart thanks a lot I won`t go back in time believe me....thanks. thanks, thanks...

[ank0ku]

Oh my god. I am so glad someone has made this. I just read What the Dormouse Said and I looked this up. Excellent.

[m9078jk3]

Wow I remember reading about Douglas Englebart in Steve Levy's book Insanely Great (The Life and Times of Macintosh,The Computer That Changed Everything).

We are so fortunate that the video demonstration of Englebart's in 1968 was saved.Douglas Englebart in my opinion is the greatest Computer Scientist of all time.

I remember NASA's Apollo 8 mission happening at around the same time yet one of the greatest technological developments(at SRI) was unknown to most Americans.

[neotoy]

no one "invented the internet"

[ckastner78]

It invented itself??!? OH GOD! Sentient machines! We're doomed!

[neotoy]

you're doomed anyway, lol.

[Dubbel14]

I would say that Tim Berners in CERN and the Army and some universities of the US and invented the Inet "together". They made all a little parts of the Inet, but if one parts were missing Inet woud not be like it is today.

Sorry for Bad English, i´m from Germany...;)

[erischaot]

You're thinking about the Hypertext Transport Protocol. Tim Berners Lee actually wrote the first Webserver and the first Webbrowser (Mosaic, which later became the basis for the Netscape browser). He used Hypertext technology, invented by Doug Engelbart, the new idea was linking to content that is located on another computer somewhere in the Internet. These were written on a NeXT computer, the Cube, at CERN. Nevertheless the internet or ARPANET's been there long before that. Check some RFCs :-)

[dwillson1]

we have came a long ways but is not over yet, if we keep going at the rate we are going by 2012 a computer will have just as much computing power as a human brain!

[BoondockDeacon]

It's a blast from the past, well to a comment you wrote 8 months ago. I often feel that tech is evolving uncomfortably but 2012 is a little too soon. There was actually a recent Scientific American magazine devoted to robots, but of course it included AI as well. 2012 we should have a mouses brain in computational power. About 4 months there was a news article on the simulation of half a mouses brain. Ray Kurzweil has the most research on it, and he pegs it at 2030 or so.

[MrModulator]

If you search for "The mother of all demos" on google you can see the demo that is mentioned.

(Can't post URL;s in here)

That demo is fascinating, but a bit too long though.

Buy the way, cool thing that THE Vint Cerf seems to have posted in here. Post 2 is made by VintGCerf which is 64 and Wikipedia says he is born in 1943 so go figure...

[sadalite]

a genius beyond all measure. Without him and his collegues at Stanford, we might have these inventions by now, but many years later and still very expensive (hundreds of thousands of dollars). Truly, a man that deserves respect and recognition.

[princessbabs4]

wow! thanks for posting this

[aufsturz]

he is the master of all we are living...

[glacia00]

Finally. I long ago lost count of how many times I got blank stares or even angry arguments from people when I brought up Mr. Engelbart.

So much of the of the credit for his developments have been given to someone else in the revisionist history.

[dnordfors]

Doug Engelbart is still today a visionary. His thoughts on how to wire collective intelligence are important.

[johnwolpert]

We climb on giants' shoulders. Doug is a giant that keeps climbing.

[appolloamos]

.. it is incredible to see the 'creator' of the mouse,a nd the man who changed the way the world thinks; what a genius mind, and thank you for showing this. A mouse we take for granted - now we know where it comes from... thank you;

Dr P.Amos

[bdaul]

I feel like the rest of the world is that "slow learner" in the family. The person that just doesn't get it in time! We need so much to discuss Doug's ideas...ESPECIALLY while he is with us.

Dougs ideas about increases in urgency and complexity related to the problems of man remind me of the issues of global warming...do we want to wait until it is too late to recover!!! Thanks Frode for creating this video jewel. --bill daul

[cloudfall]

This is a great piece of honest film-making about a man whose name is unrecognised for the most part by the general public but who without question is one of the visionaries that have really shaped the way we now live our lives and work. Nice film. J. Batchelor.

[thatkeith]

My god! This sent shivers up my spine. Some of the absolutely most important moments of the 20th century are talked about and even shown here - and we've taken their results for granted ever since!

[vgcerf]

Engelbart is one of the most charismatic of the Information Technology giants of the 20th century and certainly one of the earliest to recognize the non-numerical utility of computers, knowledge work, and communications. - vint cerf

[ballardemily]

hey this is interesting!