Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution

[Tom Johnson]

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/517341/douglas-engelbarts-unfinished-revolution/

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[Owen Densmore]

Great summary and certainly gives us pause to think about the Human rather than Tech.

He really was like that and used Augmentation in nearly every talk he gave, and given his stature in Silly Valley, that's a lot!

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

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[Stephen Guerin-5]

I also like Engelbart's measure of Collective IQ from the article :

He developed ways of analyzing how people acted inside an organization and specific techniques that he claimed would boost “collective IQ.” A set of detailed presentations on those methodologies started with what he called CODIAK. “Collective IQ is a measure of how effectively a collection of people can concurrently develop, integrate, and apply its knowledge toward its mission,” (emphasis Engelbart’s).

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Great summary and certainly gives us pause to think about the Human rather than Tech.

He really was like that and used Augmentation in nearly every talk he gave, and given his stature in Silly Valley, that's a lot!

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

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[Stephen Guerin-5]

Wow, while I've seen a few of his demos in the past I hadn't taken the time to read:

  http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

Very good for a Sunday....

I am blown away by how forward thinking they are and I would argue foresaw developments in Applied Complexity with projected augmented reality with interactive ABM way back from 1962. Nice quotes about Engelbart are here:

  https://collectiveiq.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/the-human-side-of-doug-engelbart/

When you think of Engelbart and the credit for building of the mouse, I like Bret Victor's point:

“It’s as if they found the person who invented writing, and credited them for inventing the pencil,” says Bret Victor re: tech writer interviews of Engelbart. “The least important question you can ask about Engelbart is, “What did he build?” […] The most important question you can ask about Engelbart is, “What world was he trying to create?””

—Bret Victor [source]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Stephen Guerin <[hidden email]> wrote:

I also like Engelbart's measure of Collective IQ from the article :

He developed ways of analyzing how people acted inside an organization and specific techniques that he claimed would boost “collective IQ.” A set of detailed presentations on those methodologies started with what he called CODIAK. “Collective IQ is a measure of how effectively a collection of people can concurrently develop, integrate, and apply its knowledge toward its mission,” (emphasis Engelbart’s).

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Great summary and certainly gives us pause to think about the Human rather than Tech.

He really was like that and used Augmentation in nearly every talk he gave, and given his stature in Silly Valley, that's a lot!

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/517341/douglas-engelbarts-unfinished-revolution/

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[Merle Lefkoff-2]

Terrific, Tom.  Sure makes me feel better about my work.  The mouse won't mean a damn thing when we're all under water.

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

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[Gary Schiltz-4]

I'm glad to live at 2000 meters altitude in the cloud forest :-)

On Monday, July 25, 2016, Merle Lefkoff <[hidden email]> wrote:

Terrific, Tom.  Sure makes me feel better about my work.  The mouse won't mean a damn thing when we're all under water.

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