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<p>Engelbart's goal was to <em>vastly</em> improve our ability to deal with the "complexity times urgency" of our problems, which he saw as growing at an accelerated rate or "exponentially". </p> | <p>Engelbart's goal was to <em>vastly</em> improve our ability to deal with the "complexity times urgency" of our problems, which he saw as growing at an accelerated rate or "exponentially". </p> | ||
| − | <p>[https://youtu.be/cRdRSWDefgw This three minute video clip], which we called "Doug Engelbart's Last Wish", offers an opportunity for a pause. Imagine the effects of improving the planetary <em>system</em> (and its various subsystems) for "development, integration and application of knowledge". Imagine "the effects of getting 5% better", Engelbart commented with a smile. Then | + | <p>[https://youtu.be/cRdRSWDefgw This three minute video clip], which we called "Doug Engelbart's Last Wish", offers an opportunity for a pause. Imagine the effects of improving the planetary <em>system</em> (and its various subsystems) for "development, integration and application of knowledge". Imagine "the effects of getting 5% better", Engelbart commented with a smile. Then our old man put his fingers on his forehead, and looked up: "I've always imagined that the potential was... large..." The potential is not only large; it is <em>staggering</em>. The improvement that can and needs to be achieved is not only orders-of-magnitude large; it is <em>qualitative</em>— from a system that doesn't really work, to one that does.</p> |
<p>To Engelbart's dismay, this new "collective nervous system" ended up being use to only make the <em>old</em> processes and systems more efficient. The ones that evolved through the centuries of use of the printing press. The ones that <em>broadcast</em> information. </p> | <p>To Engelbart's dismay, this new "collective nervous system" ended up being use to only make the <em>old</em> processes and systems more efficient. The ones that evolved through the centuries of use of the printing press. The ones that <em>broadcast</em> information. </p> | ||
Revision as of 14:23, 17 August 2020
HOLOTOPIA
An Actionable Strategy
Imagine...
You are about to board a bus for a long night ride, when you notice the flickering streaks of light emanating from two wax candles, placed where the headlights of the bus are expected to be. Candles? As headlights?
Of course, the idea of candles as headlights is absurd. So why propose it?
Because on a much larger scale this absurdity has become reality.
The Modernity ideogram renders the essence of our contemporary situation by depicting our society as an accelerating bus without a steering wheel, and the way we look at the world, try to comprehend and handle it as guided by a pair of candle headlights.
Modernity ideogram