Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution

Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution (symposion December 9, 1998)
Engelbart’s Colloquium, the unfinished revolution

Online-Video

Videos of Symposion

Session I

• I 0:20': Panel Discussion: Paul Saffo, Doug Engelbart, Bill English, Charles Irby, Jeff Rulifson, Steward Brand
• I 0:38': What are the undelying principles that we still do not get?
• I 0:42': NLS goals (clip)
• I 0:50': comercial vs. research
• I 0:53': Doug on ARPANet (clip)
   
• I 1:02': Apple 1984 (clip)
• I 1:06': Tim Lenoir (talk)
• I 1:13': Augmentation vs. Personal Cumputing
  Computer as communication systems
• I 1:19': Meetings and Shared “Blackboards” (that meens sharing screens)
• Knowledge Workshop
  • I 1:17': Collaborative Dialogue
    • Promotes network use for community work rather than just access to computational and databank resources
    • computer aids for the composition of messages, cross-references, modification, transmission, storage, indexing, and full-text retrieving.
    • formalized citations point to specific passages in prior messages
      • group of related annotations and messages becomes a network of recorded-dialogue contributions
  • I 1:20': NLS Journal System
    • A log chronicling events by means of a series of unchangeable entries
    • Preserves in original form, serving as the grist for later integration into more organized treatments.
    • Publicly viewable as professional journal (plus library)
  • I 1:21': Recorded dialogue
    • an extremely important foundation for group effectiveness:
      We must acknowledge that the march of technology will allow us to record ever broader dialogue media for effective studying, and integration; leading to the day when a shared-screen telephone session, with full video connection of participants’ images, can be submitted as an item of recorded dialogue so others can later benefit from the record of the real-time conferencing.
• I 1:22': Superdocumentation: The Community Handbook
  • principles , working hypothesis, practices, special-term glossaries, standards, goals, goal status
  • supportive arguments, techniques, observations, how-to-do-it items
  • comments, errata, suggestions, challenges, counter examples, altered designs, improved arguments, new experimental techniques and data
  • Updating would provide a “certified, community prosition structure” about which the real evolutionary work would swarm assisted by flexible aids for online “navigation and view generation”
• I 1:24': Stanford Silicon Valley Archives
• I 1:29 Q&A Alan Kay about the Mouse
  truth vs. information

 Session II

• II: Panel Discussion: Denise Caruso (New York Times), Don Nielson (SRI International), Howard Rheingold (hotwired), Pierluigi Zappacosta (Digital Persona), Marc Andreessen (Netscape)
• II 0:37': Alan Kay
• II 1:05': Panel Descussion: Paul Saffo, John Markoff (New York Times), Eric Drexler (foresight institute), Paul Horn (IBM), David Evans (Uniquest), Stuart K. Card (Xerox PARC)
• II 1:11': The next 30 Years

session III

To improve our collective ability to solve the world's problems we must harvest the immense promise and power of technology. The mouse is just the first step. – Doug Engelbart

• III: 0:03' The mother of all demos -- CSCW (clip)
• III: 0:06' Conversation between Doug Engelbart and Jeff Rulifson (Sun) about the current work at the bootstrap institute -- bootstrap alliance
  • 0:11': Exploding rate and scale of chance
  • 0:12': collective intelligence in action
  • dynamic repository
  • 0:15' 30" Organizational capability comes from...
  • 0:18': The world's organizations in human-tool space
  • 0:22': About high-performance teams
  • 0:26': Bootstrap institute Japan
  • 0:36': Open Source
  • 0:43': Q&A
• III 0:51:30 Saffo introducing Ted Nelson
• III 0:52:25 Knowledge Navigator (clip, Apple) | cf. Knowledge Navigator Videos by Apple Computer
• III 0:56' Ted Nelson (talk) (a published version is The unfinished revolution and Xanadu [Nelson 99b])
  • 1:22' windows - parallel textface demo
  • 1:24' Engelbart (clip)
• III 1:25' Saffo introducing Andries Van Dam
• III 1:27' Andy Van Dam (talk)
  • 1:46' the future: ubiquitous and wearable computers, multi-modal interfaces, Office VR

session IV

• IV 0:03': Saffo introducing Terry Winograd
• Terry Winograd (talk)
• IV 0:25' Saffo introducing Stewart Brand
• IV 0:27': Stewart Brand (talk)
  • What is wisdom? How dows it work?
  • long term thinking, The Long Now Foundation
  • 42' The Digital Dark Age. “Digital data lasts forever, or for 5 years - which ever comes first.”
• IV 0:47: Saffo introducing Jaron Lanier
• IV 0:49: Jaron Lanier (talk)
• IV 1:12': credits and thanks

mailing list

yahoogroups mailing list: unrev-II. Meanwhile the discussion has moved to Bootstrap Alliance unrev talk.