[Hplusroadmap] doug engelbart 1968 demo at SRI

[ben lipkowitz]

engelbart was wondering in 1951 how to best use his intellect for the 
betterment of mankind when he realized that an improvement in 
collaboration was sorely needed. now, in 2008 we've almost caught up to 
his original vision, which included:
   - a wiki-like hyperlinked display/editing system
   - highly structured text and documents
   - realtime videoconferencing/screencasting
   - bootstrapping of human intelligence augmentation
   - evolutionary project development (optimizing "what next?")
and probably more, but i'm not done watching the original demo yet:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097

in any case, this is one of the earliest examples i've seen of an 
interactive computer system actually being used.

this pokes a tiny hole in my 'everything of consequence happened in 1969' 
theory

   -fenn