Engelbart envisioned a future where computers would be used to augment human intelligence, and the mouse was a key part of that vision. However, the device didn't become commercially viable until ...

His goal was to speak directly to other engineers, showing them that they could use computers in new ways to ... “I don’t know why we call it a mouse,” Engelbart remarked.

So much of the way we interact with our tech requires the usual suspect of interfaces, be that the click of a mouse, the tap ...