Augmenting Human Intellect: Vale Doug Engelbart
“His vision didn’t stop there: he proposed co-evolution of people and technology, and wanted people developing systems to be using the tools they were building to do their work, ... bootstrapping the environment. He early on saw the necessity of bringing in diverse viewpoints ... to get the best outcomes. And continual learning was a key component ... not just an ongoing reflection on work processes looking for opportunities to improve, but a reflection on the reflection process; sharing between groups doing the work reflection, to collaboratively improve.”
The shocking truth about Silicon Valley genius Doug Engelbart
The shocking truth about Silicon Valley genius Doug Engelbart
“He's lauded by many for his stellar contributions but no one would fund him in the last four decades of his life...
There is an unfinished computer revolution, and with important unfinished work that he wasn't able to complete. … What new platforms of innovation could have come from his work, what new hundred billion dollar industries might have emerged?”
See also Remembering Doug Engelbart
Celebrating the man who invented the mouse
Celebrating the man who invented the mouse
“The mouse was merely a byproduct of Engelbart's larger vision, said his daughter, Christina Engelbart [...] "That was what the public recognizes as a great innovation that's really had a huge impact on everyone. But truly his greatest innovation of all was the vision and the strategic organizing principles that catapulted the innovation of his lab and that could catapult the work today if it was applied and harnessed in teams and organizations” Watch the Stanford News Report
The SCU Center for Science, Technology, and Society: Where Technology and Tradition Meet
The SCU Center for Science, Technology, and Society: Where Technology and Tradition Meet
“The new Center at SCU capitalizes on its Silicon Valley resources to provide a promising educational resource. [...] CSTS Advisory Board Member and recent National Medal of Technology recipient, Doug Engelbart, calls for a new technological and social architecture if we are to tap our "collective I.Q." and imaginations. He posits that realizing this potential will require changes in both our "tool" and "human" systems. [...] Engelbart argues that we are in the early stages of an "unfinished revolution," the full benefits of which can only be realized through the imaginative "co-evolution" of technical and human systems.
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Inventor of the present works on the future
Inventor of the present works on the future
"If we are going to do any good with the collaborative work tools that computers provide, it is going to involve significant changes at all levels of our social system and our organizations" -- Doug Engelbart. Then and now, Engelbart understood that the most profound changes to result from his inventions were not hardware or software innovations, but social innovations - new ways for people to think, communicate and work together.
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.”
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