Strategy Computer visionary seeks to boost people's collective ability to confront complex problems coming at a faster pace The Almanac | Feb 21, 2001 | Marion Softky Douglas Engelbart has been “pursuing his vision of far more powerful systems that would help people collaborate more effectively to solve the big problems" -- many of which were complicated and speeded up by the technologies he helped launch. "That's the big, big thing that's so important: How do we increase the capability of people to deal collectively with urgent complex problems? That's been my pursuit all these years," he says.

Strategy The SCU Center for Science, Technology, and Society: Where Technology and Tradition Meet
STS Nexus | Winter 2001 | James L. Koch & Regis McKenna
“The new Center at SCU capitalizes on its Silicon Valley resources to provide a promising educational resource. [...] CSTS Advisory Board Member and recent National Medal of Tech­nol­ogy recipient, Doug Engelbart, calls for a new tech­nol­ogical and social archi­tec­ture if we are to tap our "collective I.Q." and imagi­na­tions. He posits that realizing this poten­tial will require changes in both our "tool" and "human" systems. [...] Engelbart argues that we are in the early stages of an "unfinished revolution," the full benefits of which can only be realized through the imagi­na­tive "co-evolution" of technical and human systems.
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Tribute Celebrating the man who invented the mouse
Stanford News | Dec 10, 2008 | Dan Stober
“The mouse was merely a byproduct of Engelbart's larger vision, said his daughter, Christina Engelbart [...] "That was what the public recognizes as a great innovation that's really had a huge impact on everyone. But truly his greatest innovation of all was the vision and the strategic organizing principles that catapulted the innovation of his lab and that could catapult the work today if it was applied and harnessed in teams and organizations” Watch the Stanford News Report

Events The mouse turns 40: An interview with Paul Saffo on technology’s past and future VentureBeat | Dec 5, 2008 | Dean Takahashi “He is known for the mouse. But he thinks that’s the least important of his inventions.... He didn’t set out to invent a mouse or a display for editing. His goal was to augment human intellect in the service of giving human beings tools that were the equal of the growing challenges humans were facing. ” See also 40th Anniversary Event

Strategy A Commitment to Complete the Work of Augmenting Human Intelligence Outside Innovation | Dec 11, 2008 | Patricia Seybold “Christina Engelbart outlined many of the fundamental principles of her Dad's work ... "harnessing the collective intellect of all the people working on important problems." Doug believed that by working in this reflective, continuous improvement way, and by co-evolving humans and technology, we can accelerate our ability as a human species to solve complex problems. "The problems we're facing as a species are complex and urgent," Christina said. "We need to speed up innovation — to accelerate our ability to work together to solve complex global problems.”

Case Example Technology and the Quality of Being Human
STS Nexus | Fall 2001 | Jim Koch
“San Jose’s Tech Museum of Innovation and Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society (CSTS) have jointly implemented an awards program recognizing tech­nol­ogy that benefits humanity." ... A case in point, the Millennium Project of the United Nations University. "The protag­o­nist at the Board meeting was Doug Engelbart, Turing Award winner and recipient of the National Medal of Tech­nology... a passionate advocate for what he describes as the “need for tech­nol­ogi­cal and human systems to increase their rate of co-evolution” if we are to effectively address complex and urgent problems like those identified in the Millennium Project.”
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Strategy Co-Evolving Social Systems with Escalating Technological Change
STS Nexus | Summer 2001 | Ruth E. Davis
“How can individuals and organi­za­tions maintain a sense of control amidst the ever-accelerating pace of the infor­ma­tion techn­ol­ogy revolution?” According to panelist Doug Engelbart, "With escalating change in several systems, many forces will start to collide, politically, militarily, economically, and socially. [...] We need a strategy to deal with the changing scale brought on by the infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy revolution. [...] If we can make headway in dealing with complexity, which itself is a complex task, then we can use this progress to improve our ability to make progress. Thus we can boot­strap our way to an improved capa­bil­ity for dealing with complex, urgent problems. [...] and co-evolve with our tech­no­logi­cal systems to augment our collective IQ."
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Education Education, Information Technologies, and the Augmentation of Human Intellect Change Magazine | Sep/Oct 2006 | Gardner Campbell “Capturing a moment in which participatory culture offered a glimpse of ways in which creation, communication, reflection, and awareness might be part of the same complex web of activity, a kind of mindfulness that would gain purpose and direction from opportunities for creation and sharing. That mindfulness would not happen automatically. [...] But participatory culture within environments rich with integrated domains and structures encouraging reflection and mindfulness can set up all sorts of lovely feedback loops, reciprocalities, and serendipitous encounters.”

Strategy A man, a mouse, a mission
Business Week | Nov 2, 2004 | Peter Burrows
“Point-and-click pioneer Doug Engelbart is still going full-tilt trying to figure out ways to solve complex problems facing the world... If the name Douglas C. Engelbart ever comes up on TV's Jeopardy game show, the question doubtless will have been: 'Who invented the computer mouse?' In fact, that's hardly Engelbart's only claim... Ask Engelbart, and he says his life's work is about an even more audacious goal: trying to figure out ways to help the human race solve its increasingly complex problems...”

Technology KMi meets with Doug Engelbart's Pioneering Vision Knowledge Media Institute | Jun 25, 2004 | Simon Buckingham Shum: “It became clear to all of us that these were prime examples of what Engelbart had long envisioned as Dynamic Knowledge Repositories, supporting the mediation and capture of dialogue, the collective updating by a distributed community of its knowledge, and the provision of advanced services that generate knowledge 'products' - flexible views onto the underlying knowledge repository.”

Technology Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
MIT Press | 2000 | Howard Rheingold
“In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay.” The chapter on Doug is Chapter Nine: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker. First published in 1985, the 2000 edition incorporates 1999 interviews with the principals.See listing at MIT Press.

Historic The Click Heard Round the World
WIRED | Jan 1, 2004 | Ken Jordan
“It was December 1968. An obscure scientist from Stanford Research Institute stood before a hushed San Francisco crowd and blew every mind in the room. His 90-minute demo rolled out virtually all that would come to define modern computing: videoconferencing, hyperlinks, networked collaboration, digital text editing, and something called a "mouse." Doug Engelbart tells writer Ken Jordan what it felt like to launch the point-and-click revolution 15 years before the Mac.”

Strategy Global Knowledge Renaissance: Selected Papers from the World Library Summit 2002 Times Books | 2003 | NLBS Editors Compiled and edited by National Library Board Singapore | Times Books International, 2003 | Papers cover the broad themes of knowledge augmentation, cultural entrepreneurship and knowledge governance, including Doug Engelbart's keynote "Improving Our Ability to Improve: A Call for Investment in a New Future" See Preview Doug's Keynote | Doug's IDG Award

Technology Designing Interactions
MIT Press | 2007 | Bill Moggridge
“A pioneer in interaction design tells the stories of designers who changed the way people use everyday things in the digital era, interviewing the founders of Google, the creator of The Sims, the inventors and developers of the mouse and the desktop, and many others.” See the online interactive version: designinginteractions.com featuring Doug Engelbart in Chapter 1: The Mouse and the Desktop, and Interview: Doug Engelbart on inventing the Mouse

Historic It's Moore's Law, but Another Had the Idea First
NY Times | 18 Apr 2005 | John Markoff
"Moore's Law" refers to Gordon Moore's observation in 1965 that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years, while the cost of computers is halved. However, "computer scientist Douglas C. Engelbart had made a similar observation in 1960, at the very dawn of the integrated-circuit era, and Mr. Moore had heard his lecture on the subject."