inventor of primary modes of interaction we have with computers today including:
- precursor to GUIs screens
- the mouse (direct physical manipulation of GUIs)
- hypertext, using computer displays to write
- collaborative tools
focused on collective empowerment through computers
also influenced by Vannevar Bush
Tension between collective computers and personal computers
- Xerox Parc was a competing organization that was focused on personal computers. Many of Doug’s early researchers left him for that organization because he was more interested in the collective computer
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The conflict was both technical and ideological: the younger programmers came from an era where centralized power was highly suspect, and personal computing was just barely on the horizon.
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