“What the Internet is elitist? So would the press do not you? “. Doug Engelbart received in 1999 to COUNTRY in Bootstrap Research Institute (later renamed in his honor). He was obviously upset. “The doctor will not let me run because I have cancer. Fifty years practicing and now will not let me, but I hope to go back again. ” He was then 74 years, and got up every day at five in the morning to lift weights and then engage in your passion, make machines and humans are loved. “The rift between them has prevented further development of civilization.”
Doug Engelbart, who died on Tuesday at his home in Atherton (Silicon Valley, California) at the age of 88, was much more than the inventor of the mouse.
“The more you know the man working the machine, the greater the productivity of the company, society, country and therefore of civilization”, then evangelized. At Stanford University, at 74 years old, was giving courses on Revolution unfinished, the computers.
passed to fame-he did not like-for inventing the mouse, but it took 30 years to be inducted into the Hall of Fame technological. “But why,” he said without hint of bitterness, “if only I traveled three of the 26 miles out of my way.” His path is long and endless.
This humanization of computers led him to develop in 1967 the first external device to send commands to the computer: mouse, a simple wooden frame that covered two metal wheels. It was a contraption that could move by hand and allowed to move the appropriate motion to the screen. The concept of Engelbart was materialized by Xerox engineers shaped soap. Still not caught mouse , mouse.
A year later, in 1968, announced his invention under the official name XY Position Indicator for a Display System (XY position indicator for a display), which was to replace the stylus pen and joystick. The conference is conducted from home, with a home modem, which used the system developed online of his laboratory to illustrate their ideas to the audience. It was the first public demonstration also videoconferencing.
The notion of working inside a computer with a tool on the outside was revolutionary, but the unit was not for sale until 1984, accompanying the Apple Macintosh, which made the mouse a hallmark standard computers. Until then the mouse remained abandoned, without commercial use, and
The distance between the machine and the man has prevented further development of civilization
Engelbart did not stop there. With thirty patents, including key developments, made with his fellow Stanford Research Institute and its own laboratory, emphasizes the use of multiple windows or hypertext. He also helped develop Arpanet, the predecessor of Internet managed by the U.S. Government.
But for better or worse, the mouse marked his life. Engelbart has died when his historic invention begins to decline and disappear from the technological environment. Almost half a century after its appearance, now just touching the screen with a finger or even eye movement to obey the man machine.
Engelbart‘m sure glad that your mouse will grow old worse than his mind.
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