Re: Doug Engelbart Institute Grand Challenge dougengelbart.org/challenge/index.html which is such an apt way to invite a new generation to venture together collaboratively, imaginatively, creatively, and iteratively in pursuit of a better future for humanity. Doug Engelbarts call to action is even more viable and pressing today as the scope and method of interaction and collaboration become increasingly distributed, networked, cross-functional, cross-disciplinary, cross-organizational, cross-cultural, interdependent, complex, and urgent on a global scale — just as he predicted. His prescription for the technology is essentially a checklist of what is still missing in todays tools that, when embedded in our knowledge ecosystems, will enable us to make quantum leap improvements in the way we work together on important challenges in business and society. --DougEngelbart.org So KUDOS to Elon Musk - for outlining the five technologies and innovations that will radically change human life in the coming decade. Likewise, checkout Doug Engelbarts vision for Augmenting Human Collective Intelligence dougengelbart.org/about/vision-highlights.html, including the HyperScope enhanced browser project dougengelbart.org/about/hyperscope.html Together We Can Get There --Doug Engelbart (90 min.) outsideinnovation.blogs/pseybold/2013/07/learning-from-revolutionaries-doug-engelbart-john-seybold.html Checkout Dougs INFOGRAPHICS - blueprints used in his interview: 1991 Blueprint for High Performance Knowledge Work: User Interfaces and Enterprise-Wide Architectures https://ia600501.us.archive.org/0/items/BootstrapInstitute-PattySebold_1/PattySeboldBootstrap.pdf Including, 2030 Augmented reality visionary film: Future of Augmented Cognition (20:25 min.) vimeo/910935 KUDOS to Adam Cheyer - founder of Change.org and Siri (e.g., Instead of using a Search-engine in your daily life; use a Siri Do-engine as a Virtual Personal Assistant.) for your Dec. 9, 2013 tribute to Doug Engelbart (1925-2013) for his Mother of All Demos, Life and Work - hosted by the Computer History Museum (1:33 min.) youtu.be/IYkN4UbwCPk Relative to: 1) Jan. 22, 2009 - Doug Engelbart’s Legendary 1968 Demo & The Birth of Collective Intelligence valleyzen/2009/01/22/doug-engelbart-demo-collective-intelligence/ 2) Nov. 27, 2013 - Omidyar Network’s Global Impact Driven In Part By Fenwick Alums’ Skills And Vision fenwickprobono/2013/11/omidyar-network-global-impact-driven-in-part-by-fenwick-alums-skills-and-vision.html Steve Jobs vision (in 46 seconds) youtube/watch?v=UvEiSa6_EPA The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who dont do anything about it. --Albert Einstein You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. -- Buckminster Fuller Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.-- Albert Einstein I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders...And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.--Steve Jobs Déjà vu - To improve our collective ability to solve the worlds problems, we must harness the immense promise and power of technology for Bootstrapping Innovation (e.g., systematically like powerful compounding interest A-Task; B-Improve A; C-Improve B to improve A) provides a structure for empowering people to solve complex problems together — leveraging the untapped potential of people, knowledge, and tools — to help us make smarter choices, achieve more brilliant outcomes, and increase innovation capacity and overall effectiveness. -- Dr. Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013) Founding Director at DougEngelbart.org Institute For example, Augmented TV InAir seespace.co/ How Augmented Reality is Coming to Your TV with InAiR seriouswonder/augmented-reality-inair (See Kickstarter kickstarter/projects/2128859975/inair-the-worlds-1st-augmented-television/description) In context with several examples for the Engelbart Grand Challenges: 1) The North Pacific Gyre - where garbage in the Pacific Ocean swirls in an eddy of indeterminable size, was the destination of Captain Mary Crowley expedition ProjectKaisei.org - a hero of Google Earth Outreach https://google/earth/outreach/stories/kaisei.html Besides: Nov. 1, 2013 - Are You Sudsing Up with This Ridiculous Soap - made from plastic microbeads? rodalenews/plastic-waste Jan. 15, 2014 - Sunscreen Chemical in Soaps, Cosmetics and Body Fragrances Threaten Coral Reefs enn/press_releases/4232 Nov. 27, 2013 - Report: stop pollution and coral reefs could recover from disease within a year wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/26/reverse-coral-disease 2) Nov./Dec. 2009 - Return of the Fungi - with Mycological Response Teams motherjones/environment/2009/11/paul-stamets-mushroom “It helps that he’s brilliant,” says our mentor Dr. Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP about.me/EricRasmussenMD - a former Defense Department scientist and disaster expert collaborating with Stamets to decontaminate the zone around Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor with mushrooms. Rasmussen compares Stamets to visionary entrepreneur-scientists like Thomas Edison or “some of the truly fine amateur naturalists or astronomers of the 17th and 18th centuries — people who were experts in their fields, but had other ways to occupy their days. Paul Stamets is a modern example of the amateur scientist from the 17th and 18th century who made wonderful contributions with only their native curiosity and keen sense of observation, explains Eric Rasmussen, a former Navy physician and researcher for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation, who now heads for Google.org INSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters), a Google-funded nonprofit that develops technology to control disease outbreaks. Hes listened to in a lot of unexpected corners. In 1997, Battelle, a nonprofit R&D lab and a major Defense Department contractor, asked to screen more than two dozen strains of Stamets fungi. A few years later, it sent him back a classified report revealing the mushrooms to be highly effective in breaking down the neurotoxin VX, the illegal chemical weapon. Soon afterward, DARPA invited Stamets to one of its brainstorming sessions. Ive seen the lab results. I know it has potential, says Rasmussen of INSTEDD. What I dont know is how it performs in clinical trials. And thats a deeply frustrating situation to be in—to see this level of activity against nasty bacteria and viruses and not have the ability to begin clinical trials and work up the scale to human trials and see what the most effective delivery method is, what the dosing needs to be, what the side effects will be—and I think there will be very few. I mean, its a mushroom, for Gods sake. Thus far, the active ingredients in agarikon show no or very little toxicity. --Dr. Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP discovermagazine/2013/julyaug/13-mushrooms-clean-up-oil-spills-nuclear-meltdowns-and-human-health#.UuadGng760c Aug. 8, 2013 - Self-Contained, PV-Powered Domestic Toilet and Wastewater Treatment System (4:49 min.) youtu.be/eVQaMsvBLb8 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has backed the plans of California Institute of Technology by handing over the 1st round of $100,000 prize to their work on a $1,000 self-contained and solar PV-powered toilet (i.e., without piped-in water, a sewer connection, or outside electricity—all for less than 5 cents a day) by recycling water and breaking down human waste into storable energy (1:5 min.) youtu.be/z7PQMqGuWlU Technical insights on its Electro-Coagulation‐Flotation (ECF) and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Energy systems forum.susana.org/media/kunena/attachments/52/HoffmannGatesRTTCSolarToilet09-03-13.pdf 3) The World Business Council for Sustainable Development info-mural - Pathways to a Sustainable 2050 zoom.it/foTF by Bob Horn - a da Vinci like visionary illustrator who created it as a reference tool for thoughtful leadership and a platform for beginning the dialogue that must take place to navigate the challenging years to come. (The yellow boxes designate the Must Haves - “required to be on track for a sustainable 2050.”) Likewise, Hirohide Yamada, Xiangshi REN, Kochi University of Technology info.kochi-tech.ac.jp/ren/ (xiangshiren/blog/me-and-douglas-engelbart) and I are looking for developing ABC Network Improvement Communities (NICs) for Engelbart Grand Challenge as proposed here: A-Task) What is the future saying to me? Ans. - The mind space model for applying ABC model recursively from our daily business life to the world wide harmony level; abccommunity.org/ABC_model_driven_by_SOURCE.html B-Task) With that in mind, who am I to become? Ans. - Improvement of Improvement model to position our daily work as a part of world social system; abccommunity.org/improvement_of_improvement.html C-Task) What is now my purpose in life? Ans. - Live-as-a-part-of-Nature - as the shared value of the world wide society; abccommunity.org/Toward%20the%20implementation%20of%20Greener%20Economy.html Jan. 28, 2014 - Complex problems has surrounded by many different opinions at problem area, lets say A1,A2,A3,,,. in good wills. In order to resolve it, it is not appropriate to reject any of them, but needs to consolidate them at higher level of abstraction, lets say as B1 frame. This agreement of B1 frame is the collective intelligence of A1.A2,A3,,,. If the problem was something that relates to even wider area like world wide issue, then this B1 will have different opinions at the B level like B1,B2,B3,,,. So it needs be consolidated again at even higher level abstraction like C1 with the collective intelligence of B1,B2,B3,,,. As the abstraction goes higher, it covers wider areas and at the end it will cover world wide area and it will be possible by collective IQ of world wide people. Thus to me, the most critical for this is our open mind set to collaborate with others toward the unity of the world/SOURCE, and all the others has to be treated as tools. I hope you join this group to further enrich the model by bringing your experience and the model and expand the community for the implementation toward the harmony/unity of the world. --Hirohide Yamada
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