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| + | <div class="col-md-3"><h4>This story of Doug renders the emergence of the new paradigm in a nutshell.</h4></div> | ||
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| + | <p>Doug announced in the opening slide of his "Call to Action" panel at Google in 2007. "but we also need to change our way of thinking." In what follows the main points are illustrated. The story is told in the book – but can be sufficiently reconstructed from the documents linked below. </p> | ||
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So here it is, in a nutshell: Having decided, in December of 1950, to direct his career so as to maximize its benefits to mankind, Doug Engelbart thought for three months about a career line that could achieve that. Then he had an epiphany... | So here it is, in a nutshell: Having decided, in December of 1950, to direct his career so as to maximize its benefits to mankind, Doug Engelbart thought for three months about a career line that could achieve that. Then he had an epiphany... | ||
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In the late 1990s it was generally understood that the now common networked and interactive media technology, and the familiar user interface with the mouse and the windows, were not developed by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, or even by XEROX where they found it, but by Doug Engelbart and his SRI-based "Laboratory for Increasing Human Intelligence" during the 1960-s. Doug subsequently received all imaginable honors that an inventor could receive – and yet died feeling he had failed.</p> | In the late 1990s it was generally understood that the now common networked and interactive media technology, and the familiar user interface with the mouse and the windows, were not developed by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, or even by XEROX where they found it, but by Doug Engelbart and his SRI-based "Laboratory for Increasing Human Intelligence" during the 1960-s. Doug subsequently received all imaginable honors that an inventor could receive – and yet died feeling he had failed.</p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:21, 20 July 2018
Douglas Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution
This story of Doug renders the emergence of the new paradigm in a nutshell.
This is not only about technology! It's "new thinking" that leads to an incomparably better use of our creative powers AND of (information) technology...
Doug announced in the opening slide of his "Call to Action" panel at Google in 2007. "but we also need to change our way of thinking." In what follows the main points are illustrated. The story is told in the book – but can be sufficiently reconstructed from the documents linked below.
So here it is, in a nutshell: Having decided, in December of 1950, to direct his career so as to maximize its benefits to mankind, Doug Engelbart thought for three months about a career line that could achieve that. Then he had an epiphany...
In the late 1990s it was generally understood that the now common networked and interactive media technology, and the familiar user interface with the mouse and the windows, were not developed by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, or even by XEROX where they found it, but by Doug Engelbart and his SRI-based "Laboratory for Increasing Human Intelligence" during the 1960-s. Doug subsequently received all imaginable honors that an inventor could receive – and yet died feeling he had failed.
– We are riding a common social-economic vehicle. But our etc..
Text.
Does this remind you of something?
Yes – the bus ideogram!!!