ABC Lift Model

This diagram came out of the DoD funded Health Futures work - and originated with DouglasEngelbart's ABC modelwith a mashup with military planning in the Strategy Operations and Tactics layers. The US Air ForceOODA loopsare also in there with the feedback component.

Improving Our Ability To Improve - an article by Doug Engelbart

A Call To Action - Doug Engelbart presents at Google

Side Note:

Mei Lin : Engelbart's lab at SRI and Cerf at Kleinrock's lab in UCLA were the 1st two nodes of the Internet/Arpanet

JP - LATER : Interesting piece form Scientific American on that topic.

Also interesting how Hawaiian culture as impacted our behavior on the net ( not only do we have wikis, but we surf it ...

Norm Abramson was a professor of engineering at Stanford, but was also an avid surfer. After visiting Hawaii in 1969, he inquired at the University of Hawaii if they were interested in hiring a professor of engineering. He joined the staff in 1970 and started working on a radio-based data communications system to connect the Hawaiian islands together, with funding from Larry Roberts.

By late 1970 the system was already in use, the world’s first wireless packet-switched network. Abramson then managed to get an IMP from Roberts and connected ALOHAnet to the ARPANET on the mainland in 1972. It was the first time another network was connected to the ARPAnet, although others would soon follow.