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S01E04: A Machine for Thinking: How Douglas Engelbart predicted the future of computing

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The Computer Science Demonstration

Douglas Engelbart and Bill English created the first "augmented intellect" demo in 1968. Steve Jobs turned that genre into a new kind of popular entertainment, most famously in his introduction to the iPhone in 2006. The Bay Area tech scene lay at the unlikely intersection of three distinct cultural rivers: military funding from DARPA and counterculture.

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