When you have an informed public then you can really advance society. And when you have a misinformed public, it could be a recipe for disaster. And that one of the cloudy parts of the Internet is how much misinformation is proliferating out there and taking on a life of its own.
Christina Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart’s Internet Hall of Fame 2014 Induction Speech (Posthumous))
in Internet Hall of Fame 2014
Although many may not recognize his name, most people today are very familiar with the foundational technology that Doug Engelbart pioneered beginning in the 1960s.