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Gui and mouse as well as videoconferencing demonstrated in 1968.

Xerox Star computer system circa 1981.
Xerox Star computer system circa 1981.

In 1968, December 9, Douglas C. Englebart and the group of 17 researchers working with him demonstrated a system they named NLS, something they had worked on since 1962. The public presentation demonstrated the computer mouse for the first time, but the day also revealed hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking as well as shared-screen collaboration by two people at different workstations separated by a distance communicating over a network with a video and audio interface! And all of this in 1968, before the Moon landing when most computers where clunky beasts, he managed this. The Xerox Star computer system from 1981 had a mouse and keyboard and a monochrome screen, but it did not have Skype styled videoconferencing like the NLS system did in 1968. Have computers gone backwards since then? With the rate of progression in technological advancement we should have far better infrastructure and computers by now but we have most computers running Windows, which does not bode well for the future of humanity. Especially Windows 10, which is beset by countless bugs and file deletion issues. This is not what we should be running in the future, we should have computers that make the most of 64-bit architecture.

And proper secure operating systems with reliable software that does not delete user files with a simple Windows update. Hardware should be more secure, we have Intel Management Engine that is doing god knows what in the background. If we had progressed onward from the 1968 demo, we should have better technology now than we currently have, are we being held back? This makes me wonder if technology is only released to make money for greedy companies and not to benefit people. Internet speeds are not as fast as they should be. Germany had public video telephones in 1936, so why can we not have much better technology today? It was a murderous regime, but they had rockets and video calling and they advanced the space race. So I am just saying that we could have taken their technology and advanced faster than we currently have. We went to the moon in 1969, now NASA are saying we do not have the technology to go back. Thank god for SpaceX then. Elon Musk might even go to Mars in the future. Better than NASA are doing at the moment with the fake looking ISS footage. That is truly strange, like they are hanging from wires.

http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html

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