| March 27, 2000 | 04 00067 61 00032701 |
Mr. Douglas C. Engelbart, Ph.D.
doug@bootstrap.org
Bootstrap Institute
6505 Kaiser Drive
Fremont, CA 94555
| Subject: | Meeting at SRI on March 24, 2000 |
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Corrected record |
Dear Doug,
As we discussed this morning, here is the corrected record. It incorporates comments from your letter following our telephone call. The only other feedback was from Joe Williams, and he did not submit corrections or additions. Got a late note from Eric Armstrong today that does not suggest changes to the record.
Command and Control the Record?If you distribute the record, you should download the file and incorporate into your own environment, so there is a fixed record of what was communicated. This gives you control in the event of subsequent changes, which occur all the time, as new events relate to prior history within the meaning of "dynamic."
The purpose of the record in the first instance is to try and "understand" what transpired in relation to objectives, restraints and history. This provides a basis to take action. So the real purpose is to plan and carry out the work, based on clear, concise, complete understanding, sometimes called "intelligence." This requires a dynamic experiential record that appears long and overly complex, because it is an analog of human thinking with structure and alignment incorporated to enhance span of attention.
The record of a 2 - 3 hour meeting can seem like a lot of work, that could better be managed by summary explanations. One solution is to take the Welch record, and use it to guide preparation of a simpler rendering which is less imposing for distribution. The headings and action items in the record may be helpful for this.
Hopefully, we can move forward in discovering how to evolve the capability.
Sincerely,
THE WELCH COMPANY
Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net