Remote distributed workers can each execute a related support service that provides the “viewing” workers with a complete dynamic image of the “showing” worker’s window(s). Used in conjunction with a phone call (or conference call), the parties can work as if they are sitting side-by-side, to review, draft, or modify a document, provide coaching or consulting, support meetings, and so on.
Predictor: Engelbart, Douglas
Prediction, in context:In a 1992 article titled “Toward High-Performance Organizations,” Douglas Engelbart writes: ”[One possibility is] Shared-Window Teleconferencing – where remote distributed workers can each execute a related support service that provides the ‘viewing’ workers with a complete dynamic image of the ‘showing’ worker’s window(s). Used in conjunction with a phone call (or conference call), the parties can work as if they are sitting side-by-side, to review, draft, or modify a document, provide coaching or consulting, support meetings, and so on. Control of the application program (residing in the ‘showing’ worker’s environment) can be passed around freely among the participants.”
Biography:Douglas Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse, spent 40 years predicting, designing and implementing the future of organizational computing. In 1962, while at the Stanford Research Institute, he produced the paper “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework,” from which came the concepts of augmenting human intellect, improvement infrastructure, co-evolution of artifacts with social-cultural language-practices and bootstrapping. His Augmentation Research Center developed an array of important human-computer interface solutions, including hypermedia. In 1989 he co-founded the Bootstrap Institute, a non-profit organization “in a quest to form strategic alliances aimed at improving organizations and society at large.” (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: June 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Internet Telephony
Name of publication: Bootstrap Institute
Title, headline, chapter name: Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.bootstrap.org/augment/AUGMENT/132811.html
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