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Reflections on Our Future.

In an article first published in the Bulletin in 1996, Douglas Engelbart looks back to the late 1950s and recalls the seeds of the future information age, its digital context and computer-mediated collaboration. He realized early work on hypermedia interactions threatened the paradigm; people were u...

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Published in:Bulletin of the Association for Information Science & Technology Vol. 39; no. 6; pp. 44 - 47
Main Author: Engelbart, Douglas C.
Format: pictorial Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Aug/Sep2013
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