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

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Eno and Engelbart's Senious Quotient

In 1968, computer scientists were invited to speak at a conference in San Francisco. The conventional way of sharing your work would be to deliver a lecture. Stuart Brand was also in the middle of producing a multimedia art installation called War God. It employed two Kodak slide projectors, a 16mm projector and a stereo tape recorder for an hour-long presentation that never repeated itself.

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