Innovation Technology

This presentation by Doug Engelbart in 1968 has been referred to as the "Mother of all Demos" This was the worlds first presentation of a mouse. It included the first use of hypertext, email and many other modern technologies. The use of Doug's face over the demo screen is an interesting way to present text.

"I haven't gotten warmed up to this thing yet" is what Doug says when something goes wrong.

Doug makes lists and categorizes information. He also talks about the "Intellectual Worker that will have access to a console such as this in the future".

One of the goals of this project was "Better use of human capabilities".
He describes bootstrapping as "Making ourselves the research group"

"Helping Humans operate within the domain of complex information structures" - Sounds like Google? 23:50

"ARPA Network Coupling" 31:00

"The nice thing about being online is that the system keeps track of who you are and what you are doing" 44:34

"on each statement that you write, it keeps track of who you are and when you did it." Wow- collaboration tools from 40 years ago are finally showing up online again. Now we call this "web2.0"

"working with computeraid, and some peopleaid" 56:30

They go on to describe keywords and ways to weight keywords to assist in relevant search capabilities. 1:05

"Stay hungry, Stay foolish"

An amazing documentary about China, and how much has changed in the last 17 years.

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Gregory Colbert makes an appearance at TED. Colbert presents his 'life's work', a bestiary named "Ashes and Snow". Gregory describes his 14 year apprenticeship with wildlife as collaboration. He recommends that we recognize our responsibility to nature as a copyright holder. He states that we should re-negotiate our contract with nature. His mission is to introduce the Animal Copyright Foundation to TED.

Google and innovation -

This is part of a paper from IBM. IBM discusses innovation and how companies that are succeeding are doing so because they are understanding the changing market conditions in front of them.

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