Educators Seek Technology Insights
Doug Engelbart meeting with educators at the Hartford Graduate Center to discuss how innovative computing and practices can help student-designed networked initiatives prepare them for their future. Photo Credit: Stephen Dunn - The Hartford Courant.
Dreaming of the Future
Dreaming of the Future
“Can digital technology make a better world? Improve our collective IQ? In the dreams of this visionary inventor it can.”
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More of Engelbart in this 20th Anniversary Issue: Top 20 People (Doug Engelbart p.137) | Top 20 Technologies (find Mouse, GUI, Groupware)
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Bootstrapping to the future
Bootstrapping to the future
“Douglas Engelbart has been called the patron saint of the computer industry, .... One doesn't have to look very far to see the fruits of his lifelong efforts…. But these innovations were all part of a broader vision … which he calls "bootstrapping," refers to [speeding] up cycles of innovation and raise the "collective I.Q." of organizations.”
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Bootstrapping – en strategi för att förbättra förmågan till bättre förmåga
Bootstrapping - en strategi för att förbättra förmågan till bättre förmåga
“Kunskapshantering i en komplex och tidspressad verklighet” | Featuring Doug Engelbart's strategy "to improve the ability for better ability: knowledge management in a complex and time-pressured reality."
Teldok Rapport, Vol. 84, by Bengt Göran Wennersten, Stockholm, Sweden, ISSN 0281-8574 (97 pages).
Doug Engelbart’s Design for Knowledge-Based Organizations
Doug Engelbart’s Design for Knowledge-Based Organizations
“Doug Engelbart was driven to help people address really complex issues. One path is to support collaboration through the use of a Dynamic Knowledge Repository. [...] To Doug, bootstrapping is “getting better at getting better.” It’s at the heart of continuous innovation. He believes in the principle of leverage. Put your attention not on the thing you’re trying to design or do, but on how to IMPROVE the process you’re using to design or do, AND on also focus on how to improve your capacity to improve.”
This is a two-part article; see also Part 1: Intro | Part 2: Intro.
Two Men, Two Visions of One Computer World, Indivisible
Two Men, Two Visions of One Computer World, Indivisible
“With computer technology advancing at a lightning pace, it's hard to imagine that anyone could work on the same project for more than 30 years -- and still not finish it. But that is the case with two legendary figures of computerdom: Theodor Holm Nelson and Douglas C. Engelbart. The two men are very different.”
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men: The mouse is but a small part of Doug Engelbart’s larger quest
“An ambitious plan conceived by a truly extraordinary man — Instead of tackling a specific problem, he decided to go about changing the way we dealt with problems, the better to improve the world. He saw that many problems were so complex that it was often beyond human capabilities to solve them. Somehow Doug Engelbart decided to improve – augment is the word he came to use – man’s capabilities to cope with those problems..”
Appeared in Popular Computing Magazine, May 1984, pp. 70, 75-78 | Illustration by Richard Cowdrey
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