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Welcome! 1

Doug Engelbart was a prominent pioneer of the Information Age, whose visionary research beginning in the 1960s and 1970s spawned more breakthrough innovation, repeatedly, than probably any lab of its kind, before or since. His success was rooted in a profound vision for humanity, and in what he considered his most important breakthrough of all – a comprehensive innovation design strategy that informed and continuously refined his research throughout his career.

Here we have assembled some of his key lectures and interviews, and invite you to learn from the man himself, in his own words, his message for the future, what he wanted you to know, what he saw was so important to pursue, why it's still so important to your teams, organizations and society today – a strategic approach for accelerating progress, including the paradigm shifts that will be needed, and where to find the points of greatest leverage to fully realize our highest potential on a global scale, in the face of accelerating change.

Since Doug's strategic vision is multi-dimensional, and relational rather than linear, it helps to watch him presenting in a variety of contexts for the interplay of concepts to become clear. For more on the presentation format, see About Doug's Bootstrap "Paradigm Map".

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Doug's Big Idea Worth Spreading 2

If we had to pick one for a TED Talk, this would be it.

Lemelson Prize Event (6 min)

Doug summarizes his career and 'unfinished revolution' in his acceptance speech upon receiving the 1997 Lemelson-MIT Prize, which "honors outstanding inventors dedicated to improving our world through technological innovation."

Highlights 3

Vision Highlights (7 min)

A tribute video produced in honor of Doug's 2009 NMC Fellow Award by the New Media Consortium. Using footage from a 2002 interview about Doug's strategic vision, including short clips from the 1968 demo; no slides used but great coverage of key topics, excellent overview or intro to Doug's thinking.

Visionary Leaders of the Information Age (23 min)

Futurist Marc Doyle interviews Doug Engelbart using slides from his "Paradigm Map" leads with a brief intro and historic footage (skipped over in this excerpt). Produced 1995 by JCN Educational Network. See Doug's slides.

IBM New Paradigms Symposium (4 min)

Doug presenting his strategy for raising collective IQ and transformation capacity in organizations and society, essentially a 'lightening talk' intro to his "Paradigm Map"at the 1995 IBM Symposium on New Paradigms for Using Computers. This video is a digest of all the speakers, including 4 minutes of edited highlights from Doug's presentation beginning @14:22.

Management Seminars 4

Here Doug unfolds his strategic vision using his Bootstrap "Paradigm Map", including fifteen 'tiles,' each representing a different paradigm that will need to shift to realize the organization's full potential. Depending on the audience, he spends more or less time on selected topics. For complete slidedeck and navigation instructions, see Slides section of our Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" resources portal.

1. Management Innovation Seminar

Doug presenting with Todd Garrett for his Global Leadership Team at Proctor & Gamble in 1998.

2. Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution

Doug with Jeff Rulifson presenting paradigm highlights at the 1998 30th Anniversary Event commemorating their 1968 Demo. A day-long event spearheaded by MC Paul Saffo. Follow along with Doug's slides, and/or full transcript of this session, with visuals.

3. Together We Can Get There! (90 min)

Strategist/consultant Patty Seybold's in-depth interview with Doug Engelbart on designing high-performance organizations and what it will take to achieve them. Now more relevant than ever. Note: Filmed on the road in a borrowed studio, hence printed slides. Follow along with Doug's slides, slide handouts, and follow-on article by Patty Seybold, and her fabulous fresh reflections in 2013.

  • Launch: Lift Off - pilot outposts, evolving prototypes,
joining forces on the frontier in C Communities

Tech Talks 5

Talks by Engelbart and colleagues for the technical audience. For more on Doug's call to action to the tech community, visit About Open Hyperdocument Systems (OHS).

1. Vannevar Bush Symposium

Doug presenting at the 1995 Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of As We May Think, introduced by Andy van Dam. Follow along with Doug's slides and Abstract for this talk. See our event site for more.

2. Augmenting Human Intellect: Then and Now

Doug and team co-presented at a special event in 1997 marking the 35th anniversary of his seminal 1962 Conceptual Framework, which drove his life's work. Speaking here on operationalizing the vision and and key strategies - past and future - are Jeff Rulifson and Charles Irby, who served successively as Chief Architect in Doug's legendary lab.

3. 25th ARPANet Anniversary

Doug's Distringuished Lecture presented during the 25th ARPANet anniversary celebrations at BBN (1994).

4. Toward High-Performance Organizations

Doug presenting at Groupware'92 his vision and strategic approach for transforming organizations of the future, and the important role he would like to see the groupware community play. Follow along with Doug's slides, handout, and paper for this talk.

Bonus Keynote 6

Doug Engelbart's last recorded lecture, aimed at the challenge of raising society's Collective IQ as a global imperative, at the level of a Grand Challenge, or rather the 'mother of Grand Challenges' -- solving for this boosts our effectiveness in all other challenges, grand or otherwise.

Accelerating Change

Titled Facilitating the Evolution of our Collective IQ - Doug's keynote at the 2004 Conference on Accelerating Change (AC2004), held at Stanford University. Follow along with Doug's slides, Abstract and Conference Website.

Detailed Review 7

Engelbart's Colloquium at Stanford - Final Session

Session 10: In Tying it all together - Next steps, Doug presents a comprehensive summary of strategic concepts to conclude his 10-week Colloquium (Winter 2000). See also Doug's Slide Deck, and full Transcript of this session. More on the Colloquium under Deep Dive Intensives below.

Deep Dive Intensives 8

1992 Bootstrap Seminar (Intro)

Titled Bootstrapping Organizations into the 21st Century, this three-day management seminar predates the interactive Bootstrap Paradigm Map, but goes into much more detail on each of the topics covered by the map. Refer to Seminar website for program, courseware, and chapterized video sessions from this seminar.

Engelbart's Colloquium at Stanford (Intro)

Titled An In-Depth Look at "The Unfinished Revolution", Doug's most comprehensive management seminar, covering the same strategic concepts in greater detail, with guest speakers from industry and the public sector. See Detailed Review above to watch the final session, and our Colloqium website for program, videos, speakers bios, etc.

Further Inquiry 9

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