The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart

by Valerie Landau, Eileen M. Clegg

The philosophy that informed Doug Engelbart's revolutionary inventions for personal computing.

Genres: Technology, Nonfiction, History, Computers, Software

Kindle Edition

First published July 22, 2009

Reviews

[Benjamin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great thoughts with, I think, average explanations. Maybe I'm being obtuse, but I think the secret of successful think tanks or R&D labs is putting a bunch of geniuses together with a bunch of money and letting them set the goals. Anyway, diatribe over, this should be basic reading for all information workers.

[Adam Wiggins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rambling, poorly-formatted collection of essays by and about a truly inspiring pioneer in computing.

[Andrew Louis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Clear, concise intro to Engelbart's thoughts. The chapters from other contributors are pretty uneven, unfortunately. Also, the formatting in the Kindle edition is very rough and I'm pretty sure it's missing a lot of diagrams.