Doug Engelbart's Vision
Augment Collective IQ to help address the complex, urgent problems humanity faces.
"The complexity and urgency of the problems faced by us earth-bound humans are increasing much faster than are our aggregate capabilities for understanding and coping with them. This is a very serious problem; and there are strategic actions we can take, collectively. 1
Consider a community's "Collective IQ" to represent its capability for dealing with complex, urgent problems – i.e., to understand them adequately, to unearth the best candidate solutions, to assess resources and operational capabilities and select appropriate solution commitments, to be effective in organizing and executing the selected approach, to monitor the progress and be able to adjust rapidly and appropriately to unforeseen complications, etc. 2
I contend that a strategy for "facilitating the evolution" of our organizations' Collective IQs will be the optimum approach, aka a bootstrapping strategy. 3