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Talks & Interviews 1

New! Collective IQ & Human Augmentation, with Doug Engelbart (2007) - Brad Reddersen interviews Doug Engelbart for the Apr 4, 2007 episode of the Stranova Interview Series. In this session, learn about one man’s lifelong passion to create a meaningful legacy of work that could benefit all mankind – the means by which we can harness our Collective Intelligence and Human Augmentation.
 
Large-Scale Collective IQ (2004) - Doug Engelbart's keynote at Accel­er­at­ing Change 2004, Nov 7, at Stanford University. Doug shares his inspiration, his seminal research, the important challenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties still ahead, his marriage proposal to his wife Ballard, learning trick bike riding as a kid, etc. Also available on Video. Follow along with Doug's slides, Abstract and Conference Website. Many thanks to Doug Kay and ITConver­sa­tions for cap­tur­ing this talk on conference radio, and for Garder Campbell's thoughtful post produc­tion editing and blogpost re: his experience (search to "podcast").
 
A "Bootstrapping" Strategy (1995) - Doug Engelbart's talk at the 1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers conference, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA. Browse Abstract and Audio Excerpt. Also available on Video. Using the Bootstrap Paradigm Map pre­sen­ta­tion slides he gives a summary overview of the impetus for his work and the important work yet to be done. The audio is an excerpt from his talk, covering slides #1-10.
 
Douglas Engelbart on GUI (1998) - Nobuyuki Hayashi interviews Doug Engelbart on his visit to Tokyo, November 1998, to promote the Bootstrap Alliance. This is a 7-minute excerpt of their one hour interview.
     

Oral Histories 2

Computer History Museum: Oral History Interview with Douglas Engelbart by John Markoff for the Computer History Museum.. 2a

Stanford University: Oral History Interview with Douglas Engelbart by Henry Lowood and Judy Adams for Stanford Libraries Special Collections. See Interview Transcripts in interactive or pdf/print formats. Part of the Stanford Oral History Project interviews, 1971-1995. 2b

The Smithsonian Museum: Oral History Interview with Douglas Engelbart by Jon Eklund for the National Museum of American History, May 4, 1994. Based on a 1994 videotaped interview. 2c

Readings 3

New! Excerpts from Engelbart's Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework, read by Prof. Gardner Campbell for his Framework Annotation site, included here with permission:

Section I - Introduction | read along | learn more

Section II - Conceptual Framework - Parts A & B | read along | learn more

Section III - Examples and Discussion - Part A 1 & 2 | read along | learn more


Talks & Podcasts by Others 4

New! Douglas Engelbart - Inventing the 21st Century (2023) - feature story by Ian Woolf for Diffusion Science Radio. In this podcast, "we look back to the man who wanted to augment human intelligence to help us work together to solve the world's most complex problems, and in doing so invented the 21st Century. How do we get smart enough to solve the really difficult problems we have in the world? Douglas Engelbart, computer pioneer and visionary, said "the better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better" where our problem-solving abilities are constantly improved, and therefore so is everything we do!" See also Show Notes.

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New! How Douglas Engelbart predicted the future of computing (2022) - feature story by Steven Johnson for Netguru's Hidden Heroes series. "More than 50 years ago, Douglas Engelbart gave the “mother of all demos” that transformed software forever. The computer world has been catching up with his vision ever since. [...] Now available on your favorite podcast streaming platform. [...] Hidden Heroes is a tribute to innovators who set the foundations on which we build vital solutions for the modern world. Their inventions make the world run, but their stories remain hidden. Until now. Hidden Heroes uncovers unexpected connections between great human stories and technologies and ideas that are widespread public phenomena today." See companion article by same name.

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New! 1968: When The World Began (2018) - Mark Pesce teams with Genevieve Bell on the 50th anniversary of the Mother of All Demos for this four-part podcast series "exploring transformations that completely rewrote the relationship between ourselves and our machines." In 1968, Douglas Engelbart's demo – "the most important hour in the history of computing [...] drew back the curtain on the world we all live in today." It was the culmination of a wave of change that crested in 1968. Here we examine the confluence of art, interactivity and intelligence augmentation that played out against the most chaotic year of the 20th century." Find Podcast Series aired Dec 2018. Two of the four feature Doug Engelbart's seminal work:

#3 The Mother of All Demos | Show Notes
#4 Return to a Square | Show Notes

 
What the Dormouse Said (2005) - John Markoff speaks at the SDForum Distinguished Speaker Series about his book, What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the PC Industry. In the 1960s, John McCarthy was working on replacing human intelligence using artificial intelligence, and Doug Engelbart was working on augmenting human intelli­gence using computers. Both had a profound influence. Markoff talks about their contributions, and how the PC revolution unfolded. (Note: this is a two-part audio.)

Part 1 - Abstract
Part 2 - Abstract

 
New! Advent of Computing (2019-2021) - Sean Haas podcast series "covers the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing." Following are his sessions featuring Doug Engelbart's early contributions, also curated on Podchaser. See also his HUMAN'22 Keynote Abstract Doug Engelbart, edge notched cards, and early links.

The Demo - Abstract - aired Apr 22, 2019

Edge-Notched - Abstract - aired Jun 23, 2019

Evolution of the Mouse - Abstract - aired Dec 2, 2019

The oN-Line System, Part 1 - Abstract - aired Nov 15, 2021

The oN-Line System, Part 2 - Abstract - aired Nov 29, 2021