The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003MAK5E6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 366 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Now either we collaborate on a global scale to solve the new global problems, or we won't survive. And as this book vividly demonstrates, Doug Engelbart as been there all along, waiting for us with the answer. Emmy-Award Winning Historian James Burke --Email to the authors . Centuries of silo thinking and win-or-die ideological and economic competition have finally generated a global crisis. How do we bring the two together? We are at a decision crossroads. The technology is available to do so. Billions of intelligences are waiting to participate
This book should be compulsory reading for all IT and Business students around the world. JFreijser This is a remarkable book. A gem. It tells the story of a man with a mission, who started a revolution in the 1950s, which has yet to get going for real, in the 2010s.The story emerged from a series of interviews and dialogs taking place over six years, about the many groundbreaking themes that aro. "The Man Who Leaped the Information Age" according to Karl F. Hebenstreit Jr.. This book provides invaluable insights into the life of Doug Engelbart, who in my opinion is the most important visionary of the 20th Century (or more accurately, the century from 1950 - 2050). I often refer to Doug as the 'man who skipped the Information Age', which I define as a brief overlap bet. easy to read Dustin Jensen the authors did a good job making this difficult subject easy to read. Everyone should read it.
The philosophy that informed Doug Engelbart's revolutionary inventions for personal computing.