CONTACTS 
0201 - Bootstrap Institute
020101 - Mr. Henry van Eyken; Webmaster
0202 - Bootstrap Institute
020201 - Mr. Douglas C. Engelbart, Ph.D.

SUBJECTS
Fleabyte Civic Journalism Augment Thinking Based on Doug's ABC Syste
Continual Learning Knowledge Deepens Broadens that Enables Enlighten
Continual Learning Good Management Requires Organizational Memory fr
Traceability Original Sources Audit Trail Organizational Memory from
Toffler, Alvin, Culture Shock New Age Management Continual Learning
Continual Learning Links Good Management Working Intelligently Trace
Continual Learning to Think Changes Education Paradigm

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2510 - Summary/Objective
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251101 - Follow up ref SDS 40 0000, ref SDS 39 0000.
251102 -
251103 - Received a letter from Henry thanking his circle of advocates for
251104 - support and suggestions on launching Fleabyte for civic journalism.
251105 - and crediting Doug Engelbart for presenting an ABC improvment model,
251106 - which Henry would like to promote in Fleabyte. ref SDS 0 OE9N  Sent a
251107 - letter to Henry aplauding his proposal on civic journalism.
251108 - ref SDS 0 XV5J  Pose social challenge of transformation from
251109 - information to a culture of knowlege that applies intelligence
251110 - support. ref SDS 0 5X5W  Note that improvement of fundamentals like
251111 - literacy has proven not to occur gracefully, but rather is strongly
251112 - resisted.  Many claiming to seek the rosette stone for advance are
251113 - stone deaf and willfully blind. ref SDS 0 5X7X
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2514 - Progress
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251501 - Fleabyte Civic Journalism Augment Thinking Based on Doug's ABC System
251502 - Engelbart ABC System Continual Learning Core C Goal Augment Thinking
251503 - ABC System Fleabyte Civic Journalism Goals Augment Thinking Engelbart
251504 - Continual Learning C Activity Augment Thinking Fleabyte Core Goal
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251506 - Follow up ref SDS 40 OE9N.
251507 -
251508 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Henry to the circle of advocates, and
251509 - saying...
251510 -
251511 -    1.  Dear Peter and Jack.
251513 -         ..
251514 -    2.  Thank you for your encouraging words. I can't take much credit
251515 -        here, of course: It is Doug who wrote the paper. All I did was
251516 -        widen its scope from that of organizations to society as a
251517 -        whole.
251519 -  ..
251520 - Henry responds to Jack's letter, ref DRP 11 0001, received yesterday,
251521 - ref SDS 40 W83F, and to Peter Yim's letter, ref DRP 12 0001, also
251522 - received yesterday. ref SDS 40 U29O
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251525 -  ..
251526 - Henry continues...
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251528 -    3.  And, yes, Jack, if (still a big IF) we restart Fleabyte then
251529 -        this would be a message in the opening salvo.
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SUBJECTS
Civic Journalsim Fleabyte Enabling Force Report on Civilization Tran
Civic Journalsim Fleabyte Enabling Force Report on Civilization Tran

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280502 - Civic Journalism Transition Civilization to Culture of Knowledge
280503 -
280504 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Henry with copies to the circle of
280505 - advocates, and responding to Henry's letter yesterday on Doug's 1992
280506 - paper on groupware that describes an ABC improvement method.
280507 - ref SDS 40 OE9N
280509 -  ..
280510 - The letter says...
280511 -
280512 -    1.  Subject:  Fleabyte ABC 3-layer Architecture
280514 -         ..
280515 -    2.  Glad to see Doug's 1992 paper providing a foundation for
280516 -        launching Fleabyte again. ref DIT 1 0001
280518 -         ..
280519 -    3.  Perhaps the "opening salvo" for Fleabyte contemplated in your
280520 -        letter today, shown below, will flesh out how to transcend the
280521 -        box of IT in order for the cycle of intelligence to propagate
280522 -        through education, government, and industry, i.e., into society
280523 -        at large, where need compounds daily? ref DIT 1 CK5O
280525 -         ..
280526 -    4.  Recall that Doug described the ABC method, ref DIT 1 JO6N, as a
280527 -        new way of thinking and working, reviewed on 991222.
280528 -        ref SDS 14 C742
280530 -         ..
280531 -    5.  Doubtless this process has a broad societal sweep, noted in
280532 -        your letter, because civilization, per se, arises from human
280533 -        thinking. ref DIT 1 MQ7K  Anything that strengthens, or
280534 -        otherwise augments, intelligence must lift civilization as a
280535 -        rising tide lifts all boats.  Discussions with Doug over the
280536 -        past years seem to me to endorse your vision for Fleabyte.
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SUBJECTS
Gracefull Transistion to New Way Working Oxymoron People Wary Seek R

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320402 -        Gracefull Transition to New Way Working Oxymoron
320403 -        Pilot Testing New Ideas Resisted Familiar Things and Ways
320404 -        Seeking Rosette Stone are Stone Deaf Resisting Improvement
320405 -        People Wary Seek Rosette Stone are Stone Deaf Willfully Blind
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320409 -    6.  Recently, in a call on 041004 the "Enterprise Architect" at
320410 -        Boeing observed that merely citing a need for improvement does
320411 -        not yield solutions. ref SDS 35 LD6G  This suggests that people
320412 -        on the job are wary about accomplishing meaningful advance
320413 -        toward a "knowledge" solution, ref DIT 1 TK7M, with the result
320414 -        that many, who claim to seek the rosette stone for improvement,
320415 -        are in fact stone deaf, and willfully blind to advance, noted
320416 -        in your earlier letter on 001126 asking folks to implement an
320417 -        ABC new way of thinking. ref SDS 26 0001  Note that Doug calls
320418 -        out in his 1992 paper for "pilot testing" to enable
320419 -        transformation. ref SDS 14 5402  Doug further describes people
320420 -        transition gracefully to a new way of working, reviewed
320421 -        pursuant to Doug's request on 000327. ref SDS 16 1530  It turns
320422 -        out however, that graceful transition is an oxymoron, because,
320423 -        as Grove notes at Intel, reviewed on 980307, people like to
320424 -        work on familiar things in familiar ways, and leadership
320425 -        "loathes" change. ref SDS 12 1657
320427 -         ..
320428 -    7.  That's a threshold challenge, even more difficult than Eric's
320429 -        letter on 000503 disclosing that thinking "out of the box" is
320430 -        more rare than one would hope on differentiating information
320431 -        from knowledge in a way that technology can implement.
320432 -        ref DIT 1 6W9I  That's why I mentioned transformation the other
320433 -        day, as a good target for the "opening salvo" of Fleabyte.
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SUBJECTS
Cognitive Science Ignorant Meaning Drift Information Overload Not So
Webmail Paperless Office Cost Savings Management Productivity Intell
Paper Handling Reduced Paperless Office Cost Savings
New Way Working Connections Augment Intelligence Don't Boggle Mind w
Links Resist Invest 10 Seconds Create Audit Trail Traceability Origi
Context Chronologies Story Analysis Report History Who What When Whe
Traceability Aligning Communications to Objectives Requirements Comm
Links Resisted by Experts Who Claim to Seek Rosette Stone for Improv
Redundant Links SDS Improves Communication Collaboration Productivit
Alignment Linking Traceability Orginal Sources Attribution Intellige
Slow Progress Adding Links to Relevant History Organizational Memory
Life-style Change, Don't Want to Spend All Day at Computer New Way o
Addressability Anchors on Every Para Strengthens Understanding and M
Experts KM Refuse to Use Explicit Links in KM Work Product to Help C
Links in Email is Not Knowledge Management

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671802 -        Connecting Dots New Way Working Takes Time for Transformation
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671804 -    8.  This arises most prominently in the linking issue. ref DIT 1
671805 -        II4G  In the past few years there has been progress by Eugene
671806 -        and others on adding links to email, called out in Doug's 1992
671807 -        paper and restated on 000405. ref SDS 17 2484  Eugene cited
671808 -        requirements for linking in a letter on 001126. ref SDS 26 XV8L
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671811 -    9.  However, Eugene also noted on 001126 that linking in daily
671812 -        communication is difficult using familiar tools, ref DIT 1
671813 -        6K6J, even for experts in computer technology. ref SDS 26 XV8L
671814 -        Two years later, Murray Altheim pointed out on 020820 that
671815 -        experience shows people don't like to add links that save time
671816 -        using a paperless office construct even when the record is full
671817 -        of explicit links that make it fast and easy to augment the
671818 -        millions of links (i.e., intelligence), that people generate
671819 -        innately. ref SDS 32 UV6G  Murray's analysis is supported by a
671820 -        case study on 020812 showing that even those who advocate a new
671821 -        way of working to augment intelligence by adding links using
671822 -        granular addressability in fact don't use links in
671823 -        communication to improve accuracy and expand span of attention.
671824 -        ref SDS 31 659F
671825 -
671826 -            [On 050322 inquiry from Oxford on Presencing and NKM has
671827 -            no links to context. ref SDS 41 QZ8J
671829 -             ..
671830 -            [On 070831 Gary Johnson reports purple numbers technology
671831 -            abandoned. ref SDS 42 1J9F
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671834 -   10.  Could it be that people fear accountability for loss, through
671835 -        traceability with links, even more than we fear the actual
671836 -        loss? ref DIT 1 00HQ  Does this explain tragic events on
671837 -        010911? ref SDS 28 YNGH  How then to overcome inordinate fear
671838 -        that paralyses productivity noted by Eric on 011003,
671839 -        ref SDS 29 EC5N, and at SRI earlier on 010522? ref SDS 27 E688
671840 -        Is this the lesson of Prometheus learned again in the 21st
671841 -        century? (reviewed 991108, ref SDS 13 5368)
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671844 -   11.  For example, correspondence the past few days on launching
671845 -        Fleabyte, ref DIT 1 018P, has nary a single link showing
671846 -        correlations, implications, nuance, and alignment (i.e.,
671847 -        accuracy) from among a group of talented people who strongly
671848 -        support the grand vision.  This presents a transformation
671849 -        dilemma, one of among many, which the "opening salvo" of
671850 -        Fleabyte might address.  How can continual bumbling, endemic to
671851 -        bureaucracy, reviewed on 040203, ref SDS 33 E44K, be
671852 -        transformed into continual learning embodied by the ABC method,
671853 -        and called out by the Tofflers, Friedman, Senge, Drucker, and
671854 -        others? (reviewed on 950911. ref SDS 7 2222)
671856 -         ..
671857 -   12.  Who is working the problem?  Anyone at the CIA, Microsoft, IBM,
671858 -        Harvard, anywhere?  What is the evidence?  Anyone producing a
671859 -        linked record showing causation based on chronology and
671860 -        context.  These seem like good questions to launch Fleabyte,
671861 -        now with an older, wiser readership. ref DIT 1 014Q
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