00:11 thank you it's a great honor and a 00:12 00:12 privilege to be here today and I'm going 00:14 00:14 to give you an overview of what came 00:16 00:16 before the demo in fact I think of it as 00:18 00:18 the real demo it was what Doug himself 00:22 00:22 called the public debut of a dream and 00:25 00:25 you would think oh well that's got to be 00:27 00:27 the demo that was public but no it was a 00:30 00:30 1962 research report as is often the 00:33 00:33 case with what Doug leaves us we think 00:35 00:35 we understand public debut of a dream 00:38 00:38 dream demo no it's this 1962 report and 00:43 00:43 he wrote those words the public debut of 00:45 00:45 a dream and a letter to one of his 00:47 00:47 intellectual heroes than Eva Bush what 00:50 00:50 he meant was the dream was a conceptual 00:53 00:53 framework completed as a project report 00:56 00:56 for the Air Force Office of Scientific 00:57 00:57 Research when he wrote a venire a bush 01:00 01:00 it was a work in progress he was racing 01:02 01:02 to finish by the time his friend JCR 01:04 01:04 Licklider was to arrive in Washington DC 01:07 01:07 a report that Doug insisted was a search 01:10 01:10 report not a research report because 01:14 01:14 very few people could yet understand 01:16 01:16 what Doug was looking for so what is a 01:20 01:20 conceptual framework this is what 01:23 01:23 happens when you invite an English 01:24 01:24 professor to speak to you we can start 01:28 01:28 by saying what it is not a conceptual 01:31 01:31 framework is not a logo slogan motto or 01:35 01:35 brand a conceptual framework is not 01:38 01:38 operational policies it's not even a set 01:40 01:40 of clearly expressed directions in fact 01:43 01:43 conceptual frameworks come before 01:46 01:46 directions it's a compass not a map and 01:50 01:50 Doug makes this clear throughout the 01:52 01:52 1962 report conceptual frameworks are 01:56 01:56 ideas to think about even more to the 01:59 01:59 point they're ideas to think with a 02:02 02:02 conceptual framework like the Magna 02:05 02:05 Carta or like the Constitution I believe 02:10 02:10 we can all agree that however 02:11 02:11 stimulating it may be as a Tallyho move 02:15 02:15 fast and break things is not a 02:17 02:17 conceptual framework 02:23 02:23 [Applause] 02:25 02:25 a conceptual framework aims to keep our 02:29 02:29 thinking straight 02:30 02:30 open and adequate to the occasion in 02:33 02:33 that respect a conceptual framework 02:35 02:35 closely resembles a work of philosophy 02:38 02:38 the heart of the framework is what Doug 02:40 02:40 called H L a.m. /t by which he meant 02:44 02:44 humans using language artifacts and 02:47 02:47 methodologies in which they are trained 02:50 02:50 this elegant expression captured the 02:53 02:53 system's approach Doug advanced the 02:55 02:55 complexly interrelated factors in what 02:58 02:58 he envisioned not merely as 02:59 02:59 human-computer symbiosis but as a 03:02 03:02 human-computer co-evolutionary ecosystem 03:06 03:06 this distillation catalyzed everything 03:09 03:09 that would follow including the demo and 03:11 03:11 it also describes as Doug himself knew 03:14 03:14 from his rigorous habits of self 03:16 03:16 observation his own process in writing 03:19 03:19 the 1962 report his training was many 03:22 03:22 thousands of hours of research and 03:24 03:24 writing here's just a sample of the 03:26 03:26 bibliography that Doug compiled for the 03:29 03:29 early stages of his work on this 03:31 03:31 conceptual framework his methods as they 03:35 03:35 in as he insisted they must be in a 03:38 03:38 truly systems approach were mixed 03:40 03:40 methods engineering creative writing a 03:44 03:44 kind of game design anthropology 03:47 03:47 linguistics architecture and the many 03:49 03:49 modalities of what we now call 03:51 03:51 information science a field Doug helped 03:54 03:54 to invent they're all in this report his 03:58 03:58 artifacts in 1962 were mostly books 04:01 04:01 articles a dictaphone telephone 04:04 04:04 typewriter pencil pen paper staples many 04:07 04:07 of which have been largely superseded by 04:09 04:09 the artifacts he and his lab went on to 04:12 04:12 invent Doug's language is English but 04:15 04:15 with idioms drawn from many different 04:17 04:17 registers some of them quite unusual for 04:20 04:20 an engineer as he himself acknowledges 04:23 04:23 in that famous report two in particular 04:26 04:26 seemed to catch people's imagination 04:28 04:28 the first was figure two the 04:31 04:31 illustration in which Doug demonstrates 04:34 04:34 augmentation by depicting its opposite a 04:37 04:37 soldi augmented by tying it to a brick 04:41 04:41 dog had a way with earnest satire and I 04:45 04:45 think of this pencil with a brick page 04:47 04:47 as the precursor to the question he 04:49 04:49 would ask in later years did you ride 04:52 04:52 your tricycle to work today dogs other 04:56 04:56 memorably puckish moment in the 1962 04:58 04:58 report was the fictional character he 05:00 05:00 named Joe now Joe is a kind of Engelbart 05:04 05:04 in disguise he's explaining this 05:06 05:06 augmented world and Doug pokes fun at 05:08 05:08 himself by characterizing Joe as just a 05:11 05:11 little preachy but Joe is a Virgil who 05:15 05:15 guides us into the world that existed so 05:18 05:18 far only in Engelbart's imagination that 05:22 05:22 Joe section in the 1962 report might 05:25 05:25 well be considered an early version of 05:27 05:27 the demo and Joe is of course a human 05:30 05:30 being one who understands H L AM slash T 05:35 05:35 one who seeks what Doug called very 05:38 05:38 memorably a way of life in an integrated 05:40 05:40 domain Doug writes we do not speak of 05:44 05:44 isolated clever tricks that help in 05:46 05:46 particular situations we refer to a way 05:48 05:48 of life in an integrated domain where 05:51 05:51 hunches cut and try intangibles and the 05:54 05:54 human feel for a situation usefully 05:57 05:57 coexist with powerful concepts 05:59 05:59 streamlined terminology and notation 06:02 06:02 sophisticated methods and high-powered 06:04 06:04 electronic aids those were the first 06:07 06:07 words I read by dog on the BART when I 06:09 06:09 stumbled across the 1962 report late in 06:13 06:13 my home career in 2004 I was immediately 06:16 06:16 reminded of some words by TS Eliot this 06:19 06:19 will seem a strange connection but I 06:21 06:21 hope it's in the spirit of Doug's 06:22 06:22 integrated domain Eliot wrote of the 06:25 06:25 poet John Donne a thought to Dunn was an 06:27 06:27 experience it modified his sensibility 06:30 06:30 when a poet's mind is perfectly equipped 06:33 06:33 for its work it is constantly 06:35 06:35 amalgamating disparate experience the 06:37 06:37 ordinary man's experiences chaotic 06:39 06:39 irregular fragmentary the latter falls 06:42 06:42 in love or read Spinoza and these two 06:44 06:45 experiences have nothing to do with each 06:46 06:46 other or with the noise of the 06:48 06:48 typewriter or this 06:49 06:49 of cooking and the mind of the poet 06:51 06:51 these experiences are always forming new 06:54 06:54 holes that integrated domain that 06:58 06:58 amalgamation of new holes is crucial by 07:01 07:02 contrast we tend to want to think about 07:03 07:03 the L or the a or the M or the T 07:07 07:07 separately because it's easier it's more 07:10 07:10 efficient funders are always in love 07:14 07:14 with isolated clever tricks that help in 07:16 07:16 particular situations but I understood 07:19 07:19 that choosing a single point of 07:20 07:20 intervention is a recipe for disaster 07:22 07:22 our interventions must always have the 07:25 07:25 system in view without the integrated 07:27 07:27 domain domain we will certainly break 07:30 07:30 things most of all ourselves augmenting 07:34 07:34 human intellect a conceptual framework 07:35 07:35 remains the most powerful and 07:37 07:37 comprehensive articulation of Doug's 07:39 07:39 vision yet while this is a profoundly 07:42 07:42 personal work it is I believe a mistake 07:45 07:45 to say that Doug worked largely in 07:47 07:47 isolation 07:47 07:47 he wrote this from the depths of his 07:50 07:50 being but all along the way he submitted 07:52 07:52 his work to the scrutiny and often the 07:54 07:54 baffled or even hostile critiques of 07:56 07:56 others and in fact those critiques as 07:59 07:59 painful as they must have been to suffer 08:01 08:01 through with their misunderstandings and 08:02 08:02 condescension they were helpful to Doug 08:05 08:05 studying the process of his thinking 08:07 08:07 from 1959 to 1963 I can see Doug 08:10 08:10 worrying revising revising again 08:14 08:14 reaching out to various audiences and 08:16 08:16 never giving up and I can see his more 08:19 08:19 sympathetic colleagues reaching out to 08:21 08:21 Doug despite their own bewilderment and 08:23 08:23 doubts trying to help here is a poignant 08:27 08:27 example from March 1962 08:30 08:30 Doug's notes on a pamphlet his boss 08:32 08:32 Jerry Noyes lent him a pamphlet called 08:34 08:34 how to communicate ideas you can see 08:38 08:38 what he learned from this little 08:39 08:39 pamphlet in the bold even poetic prose 08:41 08:41 of the 1962 report a report that becomes 08:45 08:45 a declaration even a manifesto you've 08:50 08:50 probably heard of JCR Licklider 08:52 08:52 we just heard Bob Taylor two of the 08:55 08:55 heroes who eventually funded the work 08:56 08:56 that led to the 1968 demo but there are 08:59 08:59 hidden figures in this story too as 1960 09:03 09:03 it's closed Doug found at last what all 09:05 09:05 writers yearned for his ideal readers 09:07 09:07 and even more to the point colleagues of 09:10 09:10 similar daring who had money to invest 09:12 09:12 in his vision when he got his grant he 09:16 09:16 came into contact with this woman Rowena 09:18 09:18 Swanson the program officer who coached 09:21 09:21 cajoled teased pushed pushed and 09:25 09:25 sometimes dragged Doug through the last 09:27 09:27 stages of his monumental writing task 09:29 09:29 it was Rowena Swanson a person of keen 09:32 09:32 intelligence and deep insights and a 09:34 09:34 zany sense of humor and a taste for 09:36 09:36 eccentrics who knew what Doug could do 09:39 09:39 and gave him the encouragement every 09:41 09:41 writer craves and some never find Doug 09:45 09:45 turned in the draft of part one of his 09:47 09:47 final report in early March 1962 and 09:50 09:50 just a few days later Rowena Swanson had 09:52 09:52 this response to Doug at a response that 09:55 09:55 Doug must have been hoping for for many 09:57 09:57 many years she writes dear Doug I read 10:01 10:01 your report last night now I know what 10:03 10:03 you meant when you said it it becomes 10:05 10:05 something different from what you had 10:06 10:06 originally intended it may well be than 10:09 10:09 what you have said has been said by 10:10 10:10 others before you and that I through 10:12 10:12 ignorance I'm not aware of those other 10:14 10:14 expositions but I somehow doubt this at 10:17 10:17 least in part and I marvel at the 10:20 10:20 capabilities and the harnessing of them 10:22 10:22 by one human being which have resulted 10:24 10:24 in what I read last night 10:26 10:26 there is nothing I have to ask you about 10:29 10:29 what you wrote because it all fits 10:31 10:31 together so beautifully eventually it 10:36 10:36 would be a gem nay a gold mine of a 10:39 10:39 hundred and thirty three pages with an 10:42 10:42 appendix of over 200 names and 10:45 10:45 organizations with biographical 10:48 10:48 information that my research assistant 10:50 10:50 Laura Cramer is very kindly put together 10:53 10:53 over the course of my work this is an 10:55 10:55 astonishing document the Rowena herself 10:57 10:57 wrote about not long afterward in an 11:00 11:00 article called psych ops and computers 11:02 11:02 about the country where the one-eyed man 11:04 11:04 is king a good description of Doug 11:07 11:07 Engelbart and his vision the first 11:09 11:09 printing of this report ran out and when 11:12 11:12 people saw Swanson's article more 11:14 11:14 requests came in 11:15 11:15 and when those requests came in Doug 11:17 11:17 said we're on a second printing we'll 11:19 11:19 send it to you as soon as we can and now 11:24 11:24 I come to my conclusion in one of his 11:28 11:28 last public appearances Doug Engelbart 11:31 11:31 accepted the honor of becoming a fellow 11:33 11:33 of the new media consortium 11:35 11:35 I was there that day and I watched and 11:37 11:37 listened his Doug stood beside his 11:39 11:39 daughter Christina and said these words 11:41 11:41 of thanks well this is you know a trite 11:44 11:44 thing to say I'm overwhelmed but I sit 11:47 11:47 here just feeling overwhelmed you know I 11:51 11:51 wasn't doing all of those things in 11:52 11:52 order to sit here and get something like 11:54 11:54 this it's been so many years and I still 11:58 11:58 have dreams about how the world could be 12:01 12:01 anyway I appreciate this very much so 12:04 12:04 thank you thank you Doug Engelbart said 12:06 12:06 and that he was seated from the public 12:11 12:11 debut of his dream in 1962 until the end 12:13 12:13 of his life Doug never stopped dreaming 12:16 12:16 of how the world could be and any 12:20 12:20 stirring and precise eulogy for Doug ted 12:23 12:23 nelson reminded us of what we must 12:24 12:24 always celebrate about this man 12:27 12:27 ted said and i quote no one ever had 12:31 12:31 such a soaring view of human potential 12:33 12:33 as Douglas Carl Engelbart and he gave us 12:37 12:37 wings to soar with him though his mind 12:40 12:40 flew on ahead where few could see end 12:42 12:42 quote 12:44 12:44 I believe that if you want to see Doug's 12:47 12:47 wings you will find them not at the 12:49 12:49 mother of all demos splendid as that 12:52 12:52 flight is in that epical event no you 12:55 12:55 will find Doug Engelbart's wings and the 12:58 12:58 pair he left for you in that 1962 report 13:02 13:02 augmenting human intellect a conceptual 13:05 13:05 framework that report and how it came to 13:08 13:08 be is the subject of my current research 13:11 13:11 supported by the Engelbart Institute 13:13 13:13 early next year I will help to lead a 13:16 13:16 three-week online exploration of Doug's 13:18 13:18 framework an exploration I hope you will 13:21 13:21 want to be part of the centerpiece of 13:23 13:23 this learning experience will be an 13:25 13:25 opportunity for us to read and respond 13:27 13:27 to Doug's magnificently 13:29 13:29 1862 framework together we will annotate 13:32 13:32 the document using a wonderful online 13:35 13:35 annotation affordance called hypothesis 13:38 13:38 you can read about the experience at 13:40 13:40 framework vectors dotnet I hope you'll 13:45 13:45 join us thank you 13:47 13:47 [Applause]