In a legendary 1968 demonstration at SRI, Doug Engelbart showed computer systems with overlapping "windows", a "mouse" that controlled an on-screen pointer, a chorded keypad and several other breakthrough inventions that we now consider commonplace elements of the modern user interface.
Doug has spent the lat 30 years talking about the value of computers arising from -- and contributing toward -- social interaction. For the last few decades hi-tech thinking has glomed onto the idea of *personal* computing : highly customizable tools for solitary worker productivity. That tack of thinking may be coming about to something closer to Engelbarts's collaborative "augment" system.
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