Q&A with Doug Engelbart: July 26, 2001

Why purple for addressable numbers?
  Frode Heglund suggested making them links
  They wanted it to stay out
  Christina and Bob Czech
What should we do to induce revolution in computers?
  Bootstrapping
    ABC Model
      What is it?
        C activity
          Greater return on investment here than A or B activities
          Improving the improvement process
            Communities doing this?
              NICs
                Using DKRs to do C activity
        B activity
          Improving ability to achieve that goal
        A activity
          The goal
  Must get an idea of scale of challenge
  Capture and measure collective IQ
    Seems to always come up in organizations
    Highest priority
    What are the existing metrics?
      Societal metrics
        Not enough
      Football teams
  Proactive user communities
    Not enough to depend on tech viewpoint
    Coopetition
  What is OHS's role?
    Hyperscope is first step
    Just an evolutionary starting point
  Who must change and when?
    Coevolution
      Chicken and egg problem
Should linking or addressability be top-level?
  Very intertwined
  Addressability is king
How do we get disparate OHS communities cooperating?
  Need to keep an eye on what's actually happening
  C level community
Big challenges?
  Inducing coevolution
  Integration
How does Doug feel about how computers are used?
  Wants to capitalize on opportunity for coevolution
  Not taking advantage of how much we can get from it
    Status quo is evolution, not revolution
    Examples?
      Tibetan reliance on Microsoft
How do we deal with insistence on proprietary formats?
  Market pressure
    Supporterd HTML because of Web's popularity
  Persuade them to play with us
What is the Hyperscope?
  Evolvability is vital
    Humans are capable of evolving
    How does evolution happen?
      Must be induced by people
        Eliot Kimber's system
  describes basic functionality
  Purpose?
    Provide some OHS capabilities for legacy files
  Features?
    Adapt to ability of the user
    Editor (eventually)
    Link database
    Browser
    Intermediate file structure
  Capabilities?
    Interoperability between all file types
    Typed links
      Important linking feature
    Moving around data
    Linking
    Legacy files
    Revision control
    Granular addressability
  How do you manipulate views?
    How you want to look at some knowledge
    Augment view control
    Why is this important?
      Dynamic information display
        Examples?
          Status quo for literature
    Examples?
      Audio
      Textual
      Murray working on zoological topic map
      Graphical
    What is the range of things you can manipulate?
      Transformations
      Presentation
      Querying
        Doug doesn't distinguish this from presentation
    How to partition this functionality between client and server?
      Implementation issue
      Functionality will evolve based on user needs.
How do we train teams?
  Target people in schools
    Must get OHS into schools
    Mantra these days in high school is life-long learning
  Play
    Should use this as a method for teaching people to use OHS
    Typing games
    Sheldon's experience at Citibank
  Contests
What do we need to measure about collective IQ?
  Not good enough now to measure this
    Everest analogy
  How well you're dealing with collective problems
    How do we measure this?
      A complex problem
      Must evolve