The Far thinker of Computers - Douglas Englebart

Read about Doug Englebart who is one of the pioneers in the internet computer world and he was talking about the online collabration and the conference in the late 1960s which is even before the internet era.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/englebart.html

Some of the references for todays Douglas :

http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/doug_englebart_.html

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/06/everything_old.html