American inventor and engineer who invented the computer mouse, developed hypertext and groupware, created the GUI concept, and gave 'The Mother of All Demos' (1968) — demonstrating word processing, video conferencing, hypertext, and collaborative real-time editing 40 years before they became mainstream.
Demonstrated the complete future of personal computing 40 years early — the 1968 Mother of All Demos showed a live audience a networked workstation with a mouse, hypertext links, collaborative editing, and video conferencing simultaneously; every PC and smartphone descends from this vision, and his essay 'Augmenting Human Intellect' defined the philosophical framework.
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