Douglas Engelbart
<p>Jun 24, 2011 07:02 PM  Doug invented the mouse. applied for a patent in 1967, granted in 1970.
licensed the patent to Apple for 40,000 dollars!!!
 
1968...  the mother of all demos.   
 
Wow!   Read  Doug Engelbart's epiphany!!!
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<li>he would focus his career on <b>making the world a better place</b>;</li>
<li>any serious effort to make the world better requires some kind of organized effort;</li>
<li><b>harnessing the collective human intellect of all the people </b></li>
<li><b>contributing to effective solutions was the key</b>;</li>
<li>if you could <b>dramatically improve how we do that</b>, </li>
<li>you'd be boosting every effort on the planet to solve important problems - the sooner the better; and</li>
<li><b>computers could be the vehicle for dramatically improving this capabilit</b>y.<sup class="Template-Fact" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from April 2011" >[<i><a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a></i>]</sup></li>
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<p>In 1945, Engelbart had read with interest <a title="Vannevar Bush" href="/wiki/Vannevar_Bush">Vannevar Bush</a>'s article "<a title="As We May Think" href="/wiki/As_We_May_Think">As We May Think</a></p>