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Improving Our Ability to Improve

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The development of new computing technologies over the past fifty years - in hardware and software – has provided stunningly important changes in the way we work and in the way we solve problems. I need to get this assertion out in front of you early in this talk, because most of the rest of what I have to say might cause you to think that I have lost track of this progress or that I don't appreciate it. So, let me get it said – we have made enormous strides since the early 1950s, when I first began thinking seriously about ways to use computers to address important social problems. It has truly been a remarkable fifty years. At my first job at NACA, the forerunner of NASA, right out of engineering school, there was no vision at all of electronic computers. In fact the term "computers" referred to the room full of women sitting at desks using desk calculators to process the wind tunnel data. This was in the late '40s. After I'd earned my doctorate at UC Berkeley and worked there as an

Improving Our Ability to Improve - 2002 - (AUGMENT,133320,) - Doug Engelbart Institute Bootstrap Alliance --> --> Donate Our Mission Site Map --> --> --> Banner --> VIEW buttons help you navigate: Outline offers a bird's eye view; Numbers and Labels show hotlinks you can click to Jump to, or right click to Copy Link to; Numbers show where you are. Learn more . TABLE OF CONTENTS [Top] Summary 0a Good news and bad news 1 The vision: The payoff 2 Evidence of trouble 3 Structural roots of the problem 4 Restoring balance 5 Moving from "invisible hand" to strategy 6 Investing wisely in improvement 7

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