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Peter MountOn this day in 1968 (9 December) Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the computer system NLS.You can see the demo here: <a href="https://area51.media/w/hhSHDndVaEGSiJBgDgfM2x" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://area51.media/w/hhSHDndVaEGSiJBgDgfM2x</a><a href="https://area51.social/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroComputing</a> <a href="https://area51.social/tags/motherOfAllDemos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#motherOfAllDemos</a> <a href="https://area51.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#video</a>

Stefan Bohacek""The Mother of All Demos" was a landmark computer demonstration of [...] many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor."<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computers</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/demo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#demo</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/MotherOfAllDemos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MotherOfAllDemos</a>

PeteIs it possible to have a <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WebService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebService</a> which shows in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RealTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RealTime</a> how <a href="https://mas.to/tags/trends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trends</a> are being manipulated, falsehoods spread, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disinformation</a> disseminated?Then apps/website could tag information's reliability, or expose the chain of influence to show who is benefiting.Doesn't sound too difficult. I mean, compared to 1968's <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MotherOfAllDemos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MotherOfAllDemos</a>.Isn't this what <a href="https://mas.to/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> is for, augmenting humans?<a href="https://mas.to/tags/AugmentingHumans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AugmentingHumans</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DougEngelbart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DougEngelbart</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ideas</a>

Abraham Samma🔬🔭👨‍💻Engelbart's law: the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential. On this 55th anniversary of his seminal "mother of all demos", Douglas Engelbart's observation that we can improve on our improvements remains valid, but I also wonder if we're entering a new phase of improvement wrt LLMs where the ability to improve will not just be in the sphere of humanity, but also in the sphere of machines as co-creators.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbart%27s_law" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbart%27s_law</a><a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llms</a> <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/engelbart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#engelbart</a> <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/motherofalldemos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#motherofalldemos</a>

Joey de Villa 🪗Just a reminder that today — December 9, 2023 — is the 55th anniversary of “The Mother of All Demos,” the 1968 demonstration of technology that we all use today, but must have seemed like pure science fiction back then. <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/demonstration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#demonstration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/MotherOfAllDemos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MotherOfAllDemos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Englebart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Englebart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/DougEnglebart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DougEnglebart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/mouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mouse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/GUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GUI</a><a href="https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/12/09/the-mother-of-all-demos-happened-55-years-ago-today/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/12/09/the-mother-of-all-demos-happened-55-years-ago-today/</a>

Yaroslav KhnyginToday 55 years ago the modern world began. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MotherOfAllDemos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MotherOfAllDemos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DougEngelbart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DougEngelbart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DouglasEngelbart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DouglasEngelbart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Engelbart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Engelbart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BillEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BillEnglish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ARPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ARPA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AugmentingHumanIntellect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AugmentingHumanIntellect</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IntelligenceAmplification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IntelligenceAmplification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ManComputerSymbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ManComputerSymbiosis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Mouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mouse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ComputerMouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerMouse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HyperMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperMedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HyperText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HyperText</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ComputerGraphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerGraphics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PersonalComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PersonalComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PersonalComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PersonalComputer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ComputingHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputingHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a>

Shiwali Mohan | शिवाली मोहनBefore there were <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/SV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SV</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ML</a> demos, there was their 'mother'. Rewatching Doug Engelbart's "The Mother of All Demos" Wikpedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos</a>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY&ab_channel=Marcel" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY&ab_channel=Marcel</a>The history of <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/PARC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PARC</a> and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/SRI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SRI</a> is the history of computing.Fun tidbit: Engelbart apparently 'dealt lightning with both hands'. Research presenters at PARC were called 'dealers of lightning'. PARC still holds a weekly 'Dealer' seminar.<a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/SRIInc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SRIInc</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/MotherOfAllDemos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MotherOfAllDemos</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/CS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CS</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/PersonalComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PersonalComputing</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/PC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PC</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a>

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