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To: ahhaha who wrote (14152)	8/12/1999 11:45:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 29970

It just happening at snails pace. I'm sure you know about the Doug Engelbart's work with Agument. This was said 30 YEARS AGO! <<"If in your office, you as an intellectual worker were supplied with a computer display backed up by a computer that was alive for you all day and was instantly responsive, how much value could you derive from that?" Then, on a gigantic movie screen, he brought this new world alive. TV cameras switched from shots of Engelbart's hands working new contraptions called a mouse and a chord keyset, in conjunction with a standard keyboard, to shots of the computer screen where Engelbart was effortlessly adding, deleting and reorganizing a grocery shopping list. Like magic, the cursor moved words and thoughts. The world premiere of video conferencing was a show-stopper: Talking into a director's-style headset, Engelbart punched up his colleague at SRI, 30 miles away. "Hi, Bill," said Engelbart as Bill's head filled the left corner of the screen, surrounded by text. "Now we're connected . . . let's do some collaborating." The two proceeded to work jointly on a piece of text, passing the cursor and computer controls back and forth. Engelbart and his team had invented what's now called "groupware"; 30 years later it's hard to find software that allows you to do what they did in the demo - share control of a computer screen for sophisticated collaboration.>> 30 years and we are still in the dark ages! For the rest of the article go here. mercurycenter.com Everyone who doesn't know their history or how it should be now read the whole article. Greg