What drove all that innovation and sparked a revolution?
Visit the Engelbart Academy to learn about his prescient
Vision for a brighter future, his Pivotal Strategy for designing that future, and his
Call to Action
for reaching our highest collective potential
in business and society in the midst of accelerating change — now more crucial than ever!
“The complexity of challenges
we face
may soon outpace
our ability to
solve them ...
So a core challenge for organizations tackling important challenges:
Getting smarter at getting smarter..."
— Doug Engelbart
Accelerating change poses both a huge challenge and golden opportunity!
Our Mission?
To explore how teams, initiatives, and organizations can create ever more brilliant outcomes,
and a more
brilliant world.
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Doug Engelbart on IA vs AI: "Payoff will come when we make better use of technology ... to augment the very human skills that people bring to bear on difficult problems." More at the Engelbart Academy dougengelbart.org/Academy
mathematical modelling has been used to show that misinformation spreads across the internet like a virus spreading through a population.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
Congrats to the Computer History Museum's 2024 Fellow Awards recipients -- Atari co-founders, Jake Feinler of NICs fame (hatched in Doug Engelbart's lab), and Jensen Huang of NVidia ...
Check it out: computerhistory.org/events/2024-... including recipient bios and video from awards ceremony
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All new Press Archive - featuring press coverage of Doug Engelbart and his work, from 1960 to the present, now including special section of Featured Press for each decade...
New, improved Engelbart Academy - selected lectures and interviews with an important message for our time, new higher resolution content and Key Takeaways added
New, improved Forward Vision - highlights of Doug's Call to Action now enhanced with video snippets of Doug and colleague Jeff relating the core message in their own words; PLUS all new Glossary of Key Concepts!
New, improved About OHS - a framework for the enabling technology still missing from today's prevailing IT paradigm; and the companion Technology Showcase of case examples.
New, improved Bootstrapping Brilliance Toolkit - a five point strategy for more brilliant outcomes in your teams and initiatives, added case examples and new slides and videos; and the companion Networked Community Showcase - strategic initiatives making a difference, updated with new content
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2024 CHM Fellow Awards to honor Jake Feinler, Nolan Bushnell, ... 
Doug's idea worth spreading - If we had to pick one for a
“What Would Doug Engelbart Do?” Ask Organizers of a
“How Engelbart Predicted the Future of Computing” -
with Steven Johnson - Hidden Heroes 
IT Day Japan: Can IT save the worsening
Nice piece on Collective IQ and
Nice piece on Networked
Engelbart's epic 'manifesto' turned 60! 
Engelbart's epic Demo turned 55!
