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

Hidden Heroes

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Douglas Engelbart's NLS

Douglas Engelbart's NLS was a groundbreaking computer system in the 60s and 70s. The Apollo 11 mission may have seemed more prophetic, but we're all living in Engelbart's world now. Not one human has so much as set foot on the moon since 1972.

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