Silicon Valley Conference Aims to Raise Planetary IQ

Re: Silicon Valley Conference Aims to Raise Planetary IQ http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/silicon-valley.html Technology Luminary and Pioneering Visionary Doug Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: SRI’s Revolutionary 1968 Demo — A 40th Anniversary Celebration of “The Mother of All Demos” - 150 years ahead of its time. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/11/engelbart_celebration/ http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html The Doug Engelbart Institute http://www.DougEngelbart.org was conceived by Doug Engelbart to further his lifelong career goal of boosting our ability to better address complex, urgent problems. As he sees it, both the rate and the scale of change are increasing very rapidly worldwide, and we as a people must get that much faster and smarter at anticipating, assessing, and responding to important challenges collectively if we are to stay ahead of the curve, and thrive as a planet. In other words, we must get faster and smarter at boosting our Collective IQ. Watch Christina Engelbart’s Driving Vision (35:33 min. streaming video) http://www.sri.com/engvideos/c_engelbart.html along with “The Girl Effect” - catalyzing positive change inspired by her father: http://www.girleffect.org KQED’s Forum program had an interesting piece that same morning. It was very fascinating http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R812090900 Also, * Alan Kay (President, Viewpoints Research Institute) Significance of the Vision and 1968 “Mother of All Demos”(28:26 min.

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