Leaders Make the Future, Third Edition
“10 New Skills to Humanize Leadership with Generative AI -- In a world of chaos, how can generative AI help leaders lead? AI-augmented leadership will be key for any organization to tackle the uncertainty of the future. And by incorporating practical methodologies, ethical guidelines, and innovative leadership practices, this book will help leaders develop their clarity and moderate their certainty.”
This book is dedicated to Doug Engelbart, and references his work pp. 3, 18-19.
Networking Communities
Networking Communities
“An improvement community that puts special attention on how it can be dramatically more effective at solving important problems, boosting its collective IQ by employing better and better tools and practices in innovative ways, is a networked improvement community (NIC). If you consider how quickly and dramatically the world is changing, and the increasing complexity and urgency of the problems we face in our communities, organizations, institutions, and planet, you can see that our most urgent task is to turn ICs into NICs.”
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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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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