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A comment on Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo. Parent comment

Re:Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo by zamadatix on Saturday December 09, 2023 @03:07PM (#38585448)
Who's to say there aren't just as many such people know but we still have trouble recognizing them until well after the fact.
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Re:Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo by bmitc on Saturday December 09, 2023 @04:30PM (#38586282)
My point was more that these people wrote about things that predicted where we were headed but no one listened to them then, and no one listens to them now.
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