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Douglas Engelbart
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The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.
— Intelligence in the Internet Age, New York Times, 9/19/05
Douglas Engelbart
American engineer and inventor (1925–2013)
- Fame61.5
- Momentum5.2
- United States rank#167
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- Fame61.5
- Momentum5.2
- United States rank#167
- Scientists rank#250
- Wikipedia8.1K
Lived 1925–2013, aged 88United States
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Updated 2026-06-09
He built the mouse, but that was the least of it. Engelbart saw decades before anyone else that computers could amplify human thought — not just crunch numbers — and in 1968 he stood on a stage and showed the future: hypertext, networked machines, windows, all of it.
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Engelbart ran the Augmentation Research Center at SRI International with ARPA funding, chasing the idea that technology should boost collective human performance. The work produced the computer mouse, bitmapped screens, word processing, hypertext, and networked computing — technologies he unveiled together in 1968 at what became known as "The Mother of All Demos." The lab and its oN-Line System moved to Tymshare in the late 1970s, then to McDonnell Douglas in 1984, where his ideas found little interest or money; he retired in 1986. Two years later he and his daughter launched the Bootstrap Ins…
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Douglas Engelbart
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The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.
— Computer History Museum - Fellow Awards
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