Talk from Conference on Accelerating Change 2004 at Stanford University http://accelerating.org/ac2004/.

1. Facilitating the Evolution of our Collective IQ Strategically improving our capability for coping with complex, urgent, large-scale problems. Douglas C. Engelbart Accelerating-Change Conference Stanford University, 7-Nov-04

2. Life-Changing Epiphany Just-engaged, 25-yr-old Country Kid, full of excited thoughts about building a family: “ Hey, but there’s also that professional career. Some big plans there, too?” (Over-does it!) Let me design a professional goal which will maximize the contribution my career can make to mankind !

3. Weeks Later: Naïve Country Kid’s Lifetime Goal Emerged, and Stuck! Continuous, dedicated pursuit now for over 50 years . “ As much as possible, to boost mankind’s collective capability for coping with complex, urgent problems”

5. Collective IQ: Emerged As Primary Strategic Focus CODIAK Capability Dynamic Knowledge Repository CO ncurrently D eveloping, I ntegrating, & A pplying K nowledge

7. Humans’ Capabilities Depend Upon their Augmentation System Capability Infrastructure Skills Knowledge Training Basic Human Capabilities Sensory Perceptual Motor Mental (This interface is much more significant than “HCI” ) Tool System Media Portrayal Views Study Manipulations Retrieve Compute Communicate Human System Paradigms Organization Procedures Customs Methods Language Attitudes

8. Purposefully pursuing accelerated evolution of mankind’s knowledge development and application capabilities is a HUGE CHALLENGE, and requires very effective strategies in applying our resources . This Augmentation Model is valid over huge scale! Individual Human Community Of Practice A Complete Country The World Operative IQ Collective IQ Collective IQ Collective IQ

9. Concurrency: Scaling Up -- actually , to global scope . Aggregate DKR Intelligence Collection Recorded Dialog DKR Intell. Dialog Critical Factor: “ Concurrent” Evolution of Society’s DKRs

11. The World’s Organizations in Human-Tool Space Representative distribution of world’s societies Anticipate-able Today Tool System Utilization Human System Development

14. Networked Improvement Community (NIC) An Augmented Improvement Community, Using best-practice Collective-IQ Capability To improve its common-choice group capability. • Investigate & collect intelligence • Share experience of using leading-edge, collective-IQ practices. • Objective: provide best understanding of the “Co-Evolution Frontier” for augmenting this capability . Knowledge Products Intelligence Collections Networked Improvement Community (NIC) Dynamic Knowledge Repository Recorded Dialog Org 2 Org N Org 1

17. Bootstrapping: Extension to Many NICs The Bootstrap Feedback Loop NIC for Improving Collective IQ NIC for Improving Capability Z . NIC for Improving Capability X

18. Towards Effective Facilitation Where/How to Start our First NICs? NIC Candidates? Special Improvement Infrastructures? Government Agencies? Businesses? Professional Societies ? Universities? Philanthropic Organizations?

26. THE END!! AC Conference Presentation Created and Presented by: Doug Engelbart