Mark Pesce - 1968: When The World Began: Recent Episodes
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“1968” - One incredible year saw three firsts - computer-generated art hit museums, VR blew minds, and the “Mother of all Demos” rewrote the future.
50 years later, both creators and keepers of the flame for the ‘Mother of All Demos’ reflect on how 1968 changed the world - for all of us.
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9 December 1968, modern computing begins with a ‘Big Bang’ — visionary Douglas Engelbart’s demo of a system designed to make everyone smarter.
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The Einstein of interactivity, Ivan Sutherland conceived of ‘drawing’ onto a computer screen - going on to create the ‘ultimate display
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In ‘Cybernetic Serendipity’, the first exhibition of computer art, curator Jasia Reichardt presented a world where computers create with us
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