Software tools for making software tools

I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn’t look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.

And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds

–Steve Jobs

Doug Engelbart is perhaps best known for inventing the computer mouse and the "mother of all demos," credited with lay­ing the foun­da­tion for the inter­active computing and personal computing revolutions, and "demonstrating the power and the potential of the computer in the information age."

However, his most profound accomplishment lay in the visionary strategy that drove all his disruptive innovations – a strategy for dramatically increasing humankind's collective capacity to address its most challenging problems.

His call to action from the beginning was not simply to get everyone on the web using a mouse, hypertext and groupware so we could all interact online. It was and still remains a wake up call to public and private sectors to recognize the exponential trajectory of humankind's challenges, and to respond accordingly with the vigorous, proactive, strategic pursuit of meaningful gains in 'Collective IQ' throughout business and society – facilitated by highly evolved paradigms, organizational practices, and information technologies.

This is the legacy he left for us to pursue, his 'unfinished revolution,' the E=mc2 of organizational and societal transformation.

– Christina Engelbart

This website is an online research and development notebook

• ..into technologies that combine Data Science, Knowledge Management and Interactive Systems
• ..used to create next-generation software tools that enhance knowledge workers collective-IQ
• ..which will help us tackle complex, urgent problems facing us in the 21st century

• Drug Discovery, Clinical Trials and Research
• Climate Change, Environmental Protection
• Citizen Journalism, Law, Contracts and Compliance
• Lifelong learning, Education and Professional Development