The tricycle is easier to learn, but a bicycle does more. From hunter-gatherers Dr. Engelbart takes the long view. Ever since hunter-gatherers evolved into farmers, people have evolved to accommodate new technologies, he argues. People stopped roaming and settled down. They got better housing, discovered commerce, created villages and then towns, aristocracies, war, and writing.
Society changes in all sorts of ways to get value from inventions.
Phones and railroads changed the way we communicate. They changed the whole way a community operates. And so it should be with computers and the new wave of communication, Dr. Engelbart says. Bootstrapping into the future Because computer power and speed are doubling every few years, there's a tremendous challenge to co-evolve human systems to match them. To solve the problems of today and the future, organizations need better ways to work together.