[HN Gopher] Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future
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       Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future
        
       Author : conanxin
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2022-09-25 08:56 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.smithsonianmag.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com)
        
       | mikewarot wrote:
       | The article gets all the facts right... thus not much attention
       | here.
       | 
       | It really is a shame he got kneecapped in his work.
        
       | chmaynard wrote:
       | Lovely, I was wondering who did that. :)
        
       | nopenopenopeno wrote:
       | A big piece of the puzzle is missing from the article. Government
       | funding to academic endeavors was drastically reduced across the
       | board in the 1970s, thanks to sweeping neoliberal reforms. Mass
       | privatization took over and businessmen started running
       | everything.
       | 
       | Computer historians always downplay this major historical
       | hingepoint for a few reasons, but usually because doing so helps
       | conceal just how much the modern computer industry depends on
       | technology which could only have been developed by the public
       | sector.
        
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