The Mother of All Demos A Lecture by Douglas Engelbart en.wikipedia.org A name retroactively applied to a landmark computer demonstration, presented by Douglas Engelbart on December 9, 1968. The 90-minute presentation essentially demonstrated almost all the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor Menus, Metaphors and Materials: Milestones of User Interface Design interfacestechnology
For its own sake 'Craftsmanship' may suggest a way of life that waned with the advent of industrial society—but this is misleading. Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake. Richard Sennett, The Craftsman To see the fulfillment of the work craft