(MENAFN- The Conversation) It was a year of huge social upheaval around the world. Amid the protests, outrage and uprisings, other momentous events took place in 1968 that continue to shape the world 50 years later.
In this episode of The Anthill podcast, we feature a story from Heat and Light , a podcast series by our colleagues over at The Conversation US, focusing on six key but lesser known stories that shaped America from the year 1968. This one is about a demonstration in December that year, which became known as the 'mother of all demos', and played an important role in the development of Silicon Valley as we know it today.
Heat and Light host Phillip Martin interviews Margaret O'Mara, professor of history at the University of Washington, about what happened when Douglas Engelbart took to the stage at San Francisco's Civic Auditorium in December 1968 to demonstrate a prototype of the mouse. It was the first time computing got personal.
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