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Improving Our Ability to Improve: A Call for Investment in a New Future

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Improving Our Ability to Improve: A Call for Investment in a New Future

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In the past fifty years we have seen enormous growth in computing capability – computing is everywhere and has impacted nearly everything. In this talk, Dr. Douglas Engelbart, who pioneered much of what we now take for granted as interactive computing, examines the forces that have shaped this growth. He argues that our criteria for investment in innovation are, in fact, short-sighted and focused on the wrong things. He proposes, instead, investment in an improvement infrastructure that can result in sustained, radical innovation capable of changing computing and expanding the kinds of problems that we can address through computing.

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IBM Co-Evolution Symposium

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Research/Scholarly Media

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Engelbart, D. C. (2003). Improving Our Ability to Improve: A Call for Investment in a New Future [Lecture]. IBM Co-Evolution Symposium, San Jose, CA.

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