Who Are Their Equal Today?
As you know, love Engelbart (Reducing Education & Knowledge Gaps) and, with coming AI-centered world, appreciating Licklider more. But this article raised number of questions:
“Technology always seems to move faster than our ability to understand what to do with it. And the pace seems to be accelerating.” Why don’t we have that ability to understand? Seem to me the direction is toward either a post-scarcity, post-capitalist self-actualizing world or epic existential crisis (Macroscopic Evolutionary Paradigm).
Who are today’s “mavericks who swam against the mainstream…people were on a crusade, and the goal was not to make a fortune, but to change the way the world accomplished intellectual work?” (Doc says — We’re Approaching An Autodidactic World).
Today, who is best at describing “how people and tools can learn to think together in new ways, to address complex problems…[as] a whole new way of using our minds, our language, our institutions?” (Doc Says — Our Emotions, Institutions and Technological Capabilities Are Mismatched).
Seems to me our technological civilization has passed the inflection point and accelerating toward some nonlinear change. Thus answers to these questions would be invaluable.
Doc Huston
