On 08 Jul 2010, at 10:34 , Steve Dekorte wrote: > > What do the folks here see as the goals of "new computing"? > Is it to find ways to use technology to help people be more productive? > Is it more about education? Is it about maximizing MIPS/Watt? Something else > entirely? > > My impression (which may be wrong) is that most of we think of in retrospect > as the really great stuff (PARC, Sutherland and Doug Engelbart's group) was > born from environments with goals of increasing productivity of real labor.
From what I have read Doug Engelbart was interested more in using computers to enable folk to think smarter than any increase in labor productivity :) I like how it is phrased on the Doug Engelbart Institute website: "As he saw 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." -- http://dougengelbart.org/ - antoine _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
