Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" 0

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The Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" is Doug Engelbart's interactive visual portrayal of his call to action, depicting his vision and strategy for dramatically raising our Collective IQ toward more effective organizations and a better world. Travel once around the map (shown at right) to see vision highlights, and again to see vision and strategy in greater detail. Doug used this slide presentation (or a subset thereof) in most of his lectures and workshops since 1993 -- click on the Videos below to see Doug in action. 1

Videos 2

Doug with Todd Garrett 1998

Doug with Jeff, Christina 2008

Watch Doug presenting his Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" on video:

   Summary Highlights:

• 1998 presentation with Todd Garrett to his Global Leadership Team at P&G
  (FF to 25:50; see the whole video if you have time, it's excellent!)


• 1993 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award and Distinguished Lecture
  (FF to 07:10 defines "paradigm" and begins presentation at 32:44)


• 1995 Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium
  (FF to 10:08) see also our video collection and notes for this event


• 1995 IBM Symposium on New Paradigms for Using Computers
  (FF to 14:22 for 4 minutes of edited highlights from Doug's presentation)


• 1994 BBN 25th ARPANET Anniversary Lecture
  (FF to 14:50 introduces "paradigm" and begins presentation at 15:50 or 18:20)


• 1998 Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution Panel
  (FF to 08:20 for Doug Engelbart and Jeff Rulifson presenting paradigm highlights and how they're being implemented, at the 30th anniversary event celebrating their 1968 Demo)

   In-Depth Coverage:

• 1995 Bootstrap Seminar (Parts 1-2) - an informal half-day seminar


• 2008 Bootstrap Dialogs (Parts 1-4) – four half-days of filming Doug, Jeff Rulifson and Christina Engelbart discussing the Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" in depth, see the Bootstrap Dialogs Projects page for background and links to accompanying resources

   Additional Workshops:

• 2000 Engelbart's Colloquium - The Unfinished Revolution II (Sessions 1-10) – a more recent symposium covering the same topics, with guest speakers from industry and the public sector discussing how the topics are relevant in their fields of expertise; see Colloqium website for program, illustrated transcripts, speakers bios, etc.


• 1992 Bootstrap Seminar (Sessions 1-12) – this seminar predates the paradigm map, but goes into much more detail on each of the topics covered by the paradigm map

Slides 3

View or print the Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" slides:

• paradigmmap.pdf - PDF format minus the animation
• paradigmmap.pps - PowerPoint slideshow with animation
• paradigmmap.ppt - PowerPoint source file with animation
• paradigmmap-handouts3perpage.pdf - printable slide handouts, 3 per page

How to Navigate: Click right-arrow to advance through the slideshow. There are four parts to the presentation:
    Part 1 - basic map (Slide 2);
    Part 2 - overview highlights series;
    Part 3 - detail slides series
    Part 4 - closing summary slide series.
Icons in the top right corner are as follows: Lightning bolt returns you to Part 1 (Slide 2); [2] hotlinks to Part 2; [3] hotlinks to Part 3; [4] hotlinks to Part 4; Home hotlinks to the title page (Slide 1). On Slide 2: If viewing with animation, clicking on any tile animates that tile to accentuate the topic title. On all other map slides: Click any tile on the map to select that topic as follows: Click top of tile for highlights (that topic in Part 2), midsection for detail slide series (that topic in Part 3), bottom of tile for closing summary slide (that topic in Part 3) – from there, right and left arrow will advance from that point on the given series (highlights, detail, or closing summary). Historical Note: In the original presentation developed in Macromedia Director, Doug could switch modes using shortcut keys, and bookmark a slide before jumping away from it to easily return to it later.

History 4

Doug and Christina Engelbart are eternally grateful to David Gendron of Trillium Business Learning, Inc. who conceived, designed and produced this dynamic presentation in the early 1990s with Doug and Christina's input, as a gift to Doug. Originally programmed in Macromedia Director, they were later migrated to PowerPoint. As a tribute to Doug on his 80th birthday, David created this new rendition of the paradigm map.

Further Inquiry 5

• See also About Us, Doug's Vision Highlights, the Vision section on this website's main menu, and our video archive collection.