Douglas Engelbart: Always Ahead of His Time
“The goal wasn’t to do pretty things with computers. The goal was to get human organizations to be a lot more capable of dealing with complexity. In 1951, the complexity and urgency of human problems had already surpassed our ability to cope. I knew that if we couldn’t improve it, we were in real trouble... The problem is not the technology, but to change our perspective on what it’s for.”
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Appearing in Computerworld Special 25th Anniversary Edition - 25 People Who Changed the World
Knowledge workshops are his hope
Knowledge workshops are his hope
“A tool to Raise Productivity” -- To Douglas Engelbart computers may eventually change man’s ways of working almost as much as the stone axe or the wheel. But the main difference is that data processing can vastly extend man’s mental powers, rather than his physical capabilities…. The purpose of all this power is to increase the productivity of the knowledge worker — the programmer, the scientist, the manager and their colleagues.
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