CONTACTS 
0201 - SRI International                                                                                                                                                  O-00000103 0701
020101 - Mr. Patrick L. Lincoln; Director
020103 - Computer Science Laboratory                                                                                                                                      O-00000103 0701

SUBJECTS
Engelbart Doug Celebration 81st Birthday Party at Wallenberg Hall St

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0504 - Summary/Objective
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050501 - Follow up ref SDS 2 0000, ref SDS 1 OV4M.
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0508 - Progress
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050901 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Pat with a link to the record on Doug's
050902 - event at Stanford on 060129. ref SDS 2 0001
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050904 -    1.  Sorry I missed you at Doug's event this past Saturday.
050905 -        ref SDS 2 0001
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050908 -    2.  When I left about 1610, I noticed your name tag was one of the
050909 -        few still at the reception desk.  Looks like most everybody on
050910 -        the guest list came, but I was disappointed we did not get a
050911 -        chance to visit. ref DIT 1 YS6H
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050914 -    3.  Doug seemed to enjoy himself, and looked well for 81.  Hope I
050915 -        can say the same in 20 years. ref DIT 1 SS6N
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050918 -    4.  I have been thinking recently about helping people transition
050919 -        to knowledge tools. ref DIT 1 MT7H  It seems that folks already
050920 -        working in this area are the least likely to be helpful.  In a
050921 -        brief chat with Doug, he seemed to concur, commenting that
050922 -        "paradigms" that lock in ideas that don't work, also, block
050923 -        understanding what does work. ref SDS 2 UN4J  A condominium of
050924 -        "experts" in academia, publishing, seminars, and industry
050925 -        builds a wall that is impervious to "truth" or at least a new
050926 -        truth.  An example is Nikola Tesla. ref OF 14 3Y4K
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050929 -    5.  The same occurred with Mauchly and the ENIAC, where some guy
050930 -        who knew nothing about computers wound up playing the pivotal
050931 -        role, ref DIT 1 LB8J, by grasping ideas that could not
050932 -        penetrate the great minds at IBM, Bell Labs, Harvard, MIT, and,
050933 -        you will note, government agencies assigned to find "new
050934 -        technologies". ref OF 14 OP7F
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050937 -    6.  So, this is a broken record.  You have presented similar
050938 -        perspective previously.  It was interesting doing the research
050939 -        and fun to pull together. ref DIT 1 FD9J
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