JD Leahy pointed out that Boing Boing has posted about the Mother Of All Demos, and it occurred to me that it was worth noting here as well. One of the lesser known facts about this demo was that it was our own Stewart Brand who filmed this demo back in 01968. The number of innovations that were demonstrated on this day included a mouse input device, remote computing, visual interface with white background, object based programming, etc is just staggering when you consider the date it was done. We attribute most of these designs to much later stages in silicon valley companies, when in fact many of them just happened to be at this demo and spent the next two decades implementing them! ComputingHistoryLong-term ThinkingTechnology More from Computing — Technology Digital Avatars and Our Refusal to Die Digital avatars — computer representations of real human beings — are moving increasingly from fiction into reality. Yet these technological advancements risk infringing on the rights of future generations, as well as upending how humans understand and experience death. By Rosalind Moran Culture Cataloging the Many Lives of Stewart Brand An interview with John Markoff, the author of Whole Earth, a new biography of Long Now Co-Founder Stewart Brand By Ahmed Kabil Digital Dark Age The Future and the Past of the Metaverse By Jacob Kuppermann Digital Dark Age The Next 25(0[0]) Years of the Internet Archive By Jacob Kuppermann Computing Touching the Future By Casey Cripe Computing Podcast: The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure | Nadia Eghbal By The Long Now Foundation Explore over two decades of long-term thinking Concepts Long-term Thinking The Big Here Digital Dark Age Futures Millennial Precedent Archives Long Shorts Long News Projects Announcements Long Now Talks The Clock of the Long Now The Rosetta Project The Interval Long Bets Revive & Restore PanLex Manual For Civilization Disciplines Art Business Cities Civilization Climate Change Computing Culture Economics Energy Environment Evolution Genetics Globalization Government History Infrastructure Language Psychology Science Science Fiction Space Technology Year 02022 02021 02020 02019 02018 02017 02016 02015 02014 02013 02012 02011 02010 02009 02008 02007 02006 02005 02004 OLDER
Technology Digital Avatars and Our Refusal to Die Digital avatars — computer representations of real human beings — are moving increasingly from fiction into reality. Yet these technological advancements risk infringing on the rights of future generations, as well as upending how humans understand and experience death. By Rosalind Moran
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