Well said. I hate that it took the passing of Doug Engelbart to remind so many people of his work, his vision and his legacy, but I am at least heartened to see the renewed interest in what he had to say and his vision.
I also can't claim that everything we're building at Fogbeam Labs has been built with those ideals in mind, although I wish I could. But what I can say, is that we think there is significant overlap between our vision of a world where computers do more to help people solve problems, and the world Doug Engelbart was trying to create. And now, having been reminded of his work and legacy, we will be trying even harder to incorporate elements of what Englebart (and others such as William Ross Ashby, J.C.R. Licklider, Norbert Weiner, etc. ) were trying to create.
I think that sometimes the best way to find the future is go to back to the past, and now, going back and revisiting the writings and teachings of Engelbart, Licklider, Ashby, Weiner, et al., seems like a positive step forward to me.
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Well said. I hate that it took the passing of Doug Engelbart to remind so many people of his work, his vision and his legacy, but I am at least heartened to see the renewed interest in what he had to say and his vision.
I also can't claim that everything we're building at Fogbeam Labs has been built with those ideals in mind, although I wish I could. But what I can say, is that we think there is significant overlap between our vision of a world where computers do more to help people solve problems, and the world Doug Engelbart was trying to create. And now, having been reminded of his work and legacy, we will be trying even harder to incorporate elements of what Englebart (and others such as William Ross Ashby, J.C.R. Licklider, Norbert Weiner, etc. ) were trying to create.
I think that sometimes the best way to find the future is go to back to the past, and now, going back and revisiting the writings and teachings of Engelbart, Licklider, Ashby, Weiner, et al., seems like a positive step forward to me.