Doug Engelbart and ageism in Silicon Valley

Doug Engelbart’s recent passing elicited glowing eulogies for the computing pioneer who gave “The Mother of All Demos” in 1968, introducing the mouse, videoconferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and real-time collaboration all in a single hour-long talk: http://bit.ly/16EGGZn Amazing, right? Yet lost in all the accolades was … Continue reading Doug Engelbart and ageism in Silicon Valley