The Mouse and He

On the shoulders of giants, indeed. Most of us may not be familiar with the name Douglas C. Engelbart, but we sure are with the invention of the man behind the moniker ~ in fact, we're all using it right now. The mouse. "Visionary" only begins to describe him, and "several light years behind" only begins to answer the question Where would we be without him?: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/technology/douglas-c-engelbart-inventor-of-the-computer-mouse-dies-at-88.html?pagewanted=all