PRESERVE

Creative Mornings Hamburg: PRESERVE
Preserving our common computing and interaction design history does not mean to shelf the stuff into a museum’s archive and forget about it. Nor does it mean to put it onto a pedestal and worship the software and hardware artifacts of pe-digital-historic times. Knowing about our design roots simply provides an (un)fair advantage to learn from mistakes and failed attempts of generations of designers that preceded us. Sometimes it even turns out, that the original systems are far superior over the current gear and platforms. Understanding the pure vision, even if ahead of times, is key for innovation now.

Did you know for instance that the roots of graphical user interfaces, hypertext, tablet computing, augmented reality, groupware are more than 50 years old? Understanding the motivation is even more stunning. As Douglas Engelbart remembered his goals in 1960 [interview 2000]:

“[The world is] getting more complex than ever at a more rapid rate that these problems we’re facing have to be dealt with collectively. […] So if I could contribute as much as possible, so how – generally speaking – mankind can get more capable in dealing with complex urgent problems collectively, then that would be a terrific professional goal.”

Are we making progress – as a species on our blue planet? Are we tackling the right design problems to stay here for the next couple of generations? Let’s face the issues and approach solutions to fix Spaceship Earth.

More info_ https://mprove.de/script/19/creativemornings/index.html

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1. PRESERVE
   Matthias Müller-Prove // mprove.de // @mprove
   Creative Mornings, Hamburg 7-Jun-2019
   Earthrise by Apollo 8 , 24-Dec-1968
   release v7
   

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2. PRESERVE
   Matthias Müller-Prove // mprove.de // @mprove
   Creative Mornings, Hamburg 7-Jun-2019
   Earthrise by Apollo 8 , 24-Dec-1968
   release v7
   This photo, taken in Dec 1968 by
   the crew of Apollo 8, changed the
   perspective on our planet forever.
   

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3. almost any park
   We are immersed in technology and
   do not even notice it anymore
   

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4. almost any presentation :)
   …well, we only do if something breaks
   Photo: @Studio_Ranokel
   

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5. The Whole Earth Catalog, since 1968

   Access To Tools
   

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6. The Whole Earth Catalog, since 1968

   Access To Tools
   

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7. The Whole Earth Catalog, since 1968

   Access To Tools
   

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8. The Whole Earth Catalog, since 1968

   Access To Tools
   Stewart Brand
   / Stewart Brand
   

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9. 222
   The Demo
   Stewart Brand as camera operator

   ^ rehearsal for FJCC San Francisco on 9-Dec-1968
   

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10. The »Mother of all Demos« by Douglas Engelbart, SRI/ARC
    https://www.youtube.com/user/engelbartinstitute/videos
    Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco

    on Dec 9, 1968
    public presentation of interactive
    computing as we are (partly) used
    to today and as we (should) know it
    

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11. The »Mother of all Demos« by Douglas Engelbart, SRI/ARC
    https://www.youtube.com/user/engelbartinstitute/videos
    Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco

    on Dec 9, 1968
    public presentation of interactive
    computing as we are (partly) used
    to today and as we (should) know it
    

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12. Bootstrapping the Human-Computer System in the 1960s
    http://mprove.de/diplom/text/2.1.3_nlsaugment.html
    Sketchpad by Ivan Sutherland, 1963
    This photo: Sketchpad III by Timothy Johnson
    

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13. Bootstrapping the Human-Computer System in the 1960s
    http://mprove.de/diplom/text/2.1.3_nlsaugment.html
    First computer mouse by Bill English & Douglas Engelbart, 1963
    

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14. Bootstrapping the Human-Computer System in the 1960s
    http://mprove.de/diplom/text/2.1.3_nlsaugment.html
    The ARC of ARC
    Bill Praxton experimenting with the NLS Yoga
    Workstation at SRI/ARC, late 1960s
    

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15. Bootstrapping the Human-Computer System in the 1960s
    http://mprove.de/diplom/text/2.1.3_nlsaugment.html
    The ARC of ARC
    NLS/Augment is designed and used to support group discussions,
    late 1960s
    

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16. Bootstrapping the Human-Computer System in the 1960s
    http://mprove.de/diplom/text/2.1.3_nlsaugment.html
    The ARC of ARC
    NLS/Augment offers groupware functionality like
    video conferencing, shared editing, shared screens,
    late 1960s
    

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17. Bootstrapping the Human-Computer System in the 1960s
    http://mprove.de/diplom/text/2.1.3_nlsaugment.html
    The ARC of ARC
    Whit Diffey - The
    Rise of eCommerce
    John McCarthy, the inventor of Time Sharing –
    looking for new experiences
    

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    global online access to tools,
    
    information and communication
    In December 1969 the ARPAnet had 4 nodes:
    U Los Angeles / Stanford Research Institute
    (Engelbart) / U Santa Barbara / Utah
    

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19. What’s wrong with the Web today is due to

    a lack of curiosity. And it’s very characteristic
    of a pop culture. Pop culture lives in the
    present; it doesn’t really live in the future or
    want to know about great ideas from the past.
    / Alan Kay 2007
    https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/Kay-CIOinsight2007.html
    Alan Kay at Xerox PARC:
    Concept Dynabook IN A Personal Dynamic
    Medium for Creative Though, 1972
    Also famous for the quote: 

    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
    

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20. BREXIT - The Uncivil War, BBC Channel 4, 2018
    
    A fictitious meeting between Zack Massingham (AggregateIQ)

    and Dominic Cummings (Leave EU campaing)
    

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21. BREXIT - The Uncivil War, BBC Channel 4, 2018
    
    A fictitious meeting between Zack Massingham (AggregateIQ)

    and Dominic Cummings (Leave EU campaing)
    

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22. BREXIT - The Uncivil War, BBC Channel 4, 2018
    
    A fictitious meeting between Zack Massingham (AggregateIQ)

    and Dominic Cummings (Leave EU campaing)
    

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23. BREXIT - The Uncivil War, BBC Channel 4, 2018
    
    A fictitious meeting between Zack Massingham (AggregateIQ)

    and Dominic Cummings (Leave EU campaing)
    

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24. We are facing even more urgent & wicked global problems, e.g.
    
    spam, e-commerce, a-social networks
    
    data security, personal surveillance, information rights
    
    political e-campaigns >> (AggregateIQ and Cambridge Analytica)
    / Ed Snowden
    photo: CC Wikimedia Commons Eliza does /via https://sms.hypotheses.org/8941
    

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25. I don’t know who discovered water.
    But I am sure it wasn’t a fish.
    »
    / Marshall McLuhan
    photo CCBY Matthias Hiltner - www.traveling-shapy.de
    

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26. The world is so damn complex.[…] If
    mankind can get more capable in dealing
    with complex urgent problems collectively,
    that would be a perfect professional goal.

    / Doug Engelbart remembering 1960 (in 2000)
    

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27. Ivan Sutherland once asked me why I am so keen and
    interested in old computing.
    My response: Understanding our cultural and
    technological roots and heritage teaches the progress and
    development of our culture. Things have never been as
    they seem today. This provides the motivation and
    responsibility for all of us to shape our present and future.
    Preserving our common computing and interaction design
    history does not mean to shelf the stuff into a museum’s
    archive and forget about it. Nor does it mean to put it onto
    a pedestal and worship the software and hardware
    artefacts of pe-digital-historic times. Knowing about our
    design roots simply provides an (un)fair advantage to learn
    from mistakes and failed attempts of generations of
    designers that preceded us.
    Are we making progress – as a species on our blue
    planet? Are we tackling the right design problems to stay
    here for the next couple of generations? Let’s face the
    issues and approach solutions to fix Spaceship Earth.
    

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28. love this planet
    love the people
    and deliver

    useful & delightful
    tools, platforms

    & experiences
    Matthias @mprove 

    https://mprove.de/script/19/creativemornings/
    

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29. WONDER
    This is all you will get…
    Next Creative Mornings’ topic:
    

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30. James Corden - Carpool Karaoke with Stevie Wonder
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqrvm2XDvpQ
    

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