Oh, almost forgot: Make sure to read about Enthiosys' ECAD -- Enthiosys Customer Appreciation Day. Luke is passionate about companies actively engaging their customers, and one of the ways Enthiosys puts its money where its mouth is is with a Customer Appreciation Day. There are some really cool videos buried in the presentation given by SRI's recently retired VP, Don Nielson.
I was really affected by the video on slide 9, where Doug Engelbart demos copy and paste in a basic word processor using a mouse and keyboard.
In 1968.
There is something very artful about the filmography, the angles, the overlays, and so on. Even though those actions are saturated into our being today, I was struck with a sense of the impact of what he was doing at the time, and at the same time, I think I was more struck by the film in and of itself.
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