55 years ago, the ‘Mother of All Demos’ foresaw modern computing
“On Dec. 9, 1968, Oregon-born engineer and inventor Douglas Engelbart hosted a computer demonstration so groundbreaking it is known today as the “Mother of All Demos. [...] Early in his career, Engelbart decided that his life’s work would focus on solving humanity’s problems. He recognized that computers could not only help with that work, but also accelerate it. [...] He envisioned computers as communication tools that could help people learn, collaborate and tackle complex problems.”
Douglas Engelbart – Inventing the 21st Century
Douglas Engelbart - Inventing the 21st Century
In this Podcast, “we look back to the man who wanted to augment human intelligence to help us work together to solve the world's most complex problems, and in doing so invented the 21st Century. How do we get smart enough to solve the really difficult problems? Douglas Engelbart said "the better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better" where our problem-solving abilities are constantly improved, and therefore so is everything we do!"
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The Public Debut of a Dream
The Public Debut of a Dream
“Doug Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework” 60 Years On: In October, 1962, Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart published a document that synthesized over a decade of research and careful thought, a document that would illuminate the work he would do for the rest of his career. 'Augmenting Human Intellect' is both a research report and a visionary manifesto for how computers and human beings could co-evolve to foster the highest levels of human flourishing. Engelbart sought to empower humanity’s capabilities to address its most complex problems, and he saw networked computing as an essential part of that capability...”
Collective IQ & Human Augmentation
Collective IQ & Human Augmentation - with Doug Engelbart
“In this podcast, learn how one man's lifelong passion to create a meaningful legacy of work that could benefit all mankind – the means by which we can harness our Collective Intelligence and Human Augmentation.”
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Silicon Valley, Innovation, and the History of Modern Computing: A Conversation Among Doug Engelbart, Gordon Moore, and Regis McKenna
Silicon Valley, Innovation, and the History of Modern Computing: A Conversation Among Doug Engelbart, Gordon Moore, and Regis McKenna
Paul Ceruzzi of the Smithsonian Institution moderated this stellar panel. "A stimulating conversation among three of the “founding fathers” of Silicon Valley produced different views on why Silicon Valley is so unique. [...] Doug Engelbart began the forum with a brief account of how he made the kind of commitment that
Mike Malone described. [...] He saw that increasingly the problems of the world were the result of a human inability to deal with complexity. [...] Engelbart’s vision is for self-enhancing, knowledge-based systems that can be used to accelerate learning, problem-solving, and the development of new ways of organizing information and people to solve complex and urgent problems.”
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Technology and the Quality of Being Human
Technology and the Quality of Being Human
“San Jose’s Tech Museum of Innovation and Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society (CSTS) have jointly implemented an awards program recognizing technology that benefits humanity." ... A case in point, the Millennium Project of the United Nations University. "The protagonist at the Board meeting was Doug Engelbart, Turing Award winner and recipient of the National Medal of Technology... a passionate advocate for what he describes as the “need for technological and human systems to increase their rate of co-evolution” if we are to effectively address complex and urgent problems like those identified in the Millennium Project.”
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Co-Evolving Social Systems with Escalating Technological Change
Co-Evolving Social Systems with Escalating Technological Change
“How can individuals and organizations maintain a sense of control amidst the ever-accelerating pace of the information technology revolution?” According to panelist Doug Engelbart, "With escalating change in several systems, many forces will start to collide, politically, militarily, economically, and socially. [...] We need a strategy to deal with the changing scale brought on by the information technology revolution. [...] If we can make headway in dealing with complexity, which itself is a complex task, then we can use this progress to improve our ability to make progress. Thus we can bootstrap our way to an improved capability for dealing with complex, urgent problems. [...] and co-evolve with our technological systems to augment our collective IQ."
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