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Doug Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution— Program for the Future Dino Karabeg

Doug’s 1962 Report Revisited

Doug Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution— Program for the Future

1962 Report

Any possibility for improving the effective utilization of the intelmectual power of society's problem solvers warrants the most serious consideration. This is because man's problem-solving capability represents possibly the most important resource possessed by a society. The other contenders for first importance are alm criticalmy dependent for their development and use upon this

• resource. Any possibility for evolving an art or science that can couple directly

and significantly to the continued development of that resource should warrant doubly serious consideration.

This kind of system approach to human intelmectual effectiveness does not find a ready-made conceptual fsamework such as exists for established disciplines. Before a research program can be designed to pursue such an approach intelmigently, so that practical benefits might be derived within a reasonable time while also producing results of long-range significance, a conceptual fsamework must be searched out —a fsamework that provides orientation as to the important factors

• f the system, the relationships among these factors, the types of change

among the system factors that offer likely improvements in performance, and the sort of research goals and methodology that seem promising.

Principal elements of an augmentation system

• Artifacts--physical objects designed to provide for human comfort,

for the manipulation of things or materials, and for the manipulation of symbols.

• Language--the way in which the individual parcels out the picture
• f his world into the concepts that his mind uses to model that

world, and the symbols that he attaches to those concepts and uses in consciously manipulating the concepts ("thinking").

• Methodology--the methods, procedures, strategies, etc., with

which an individual organizes his goal-centered (problem-solving) activity.

• Training--the conditioning needed by the human being to bring his

skills in using Means 1, 2, and 3 to the point where they are

• perationally effective

... there is no particular reason not to expect gains in personal intelmectual effectiveness fsom a concerted system-oriented approach that compare to those made in personal geographic mobility since horseback and sailboat days.

In the years that followed, Doug’s focus shifted toward collective intelligence...