We should be aware of the fact that we are not just creating our tools but that these artifacts are also shaping us. This is true since the invention of language, writing, the printing press, and more than ever in our digital age of computer and web environments. These are the foundations of culture as such, and it is our responsibility to design in a way that supports our life on this planet.
BTW_ we neither have another life nor another planet.

Co-Evolution of Humans and Tools, reboot 2009 from mprove on vimeo

References & Credits

• slide 2: all my job titles wordled
• slide 4 (image): Paleolithic cava paintings
• slide 5 (image): Medieval writing monk
• slide 6 (image): Printer with movable type in 1568
• slide 10: Doug Engelbart Audio Interviews by Frode Hegland; image
• …the world is very complex if you are trying figure out what you would fix, etc., and how you’ll go up trying to fix it. And one Saturday I – God – the world is so damn complex, it's hard to figure out. And that's what then dawned on me that, oh, the very thing: It's very complex. It's getting more complex than ever at a more rapid rate that these problems we're facing have to be dealt with collectively. And our collective ability to deal with complex urgent problems isn't increasing at anything like the parent rate that it's going to be that the problems are. So if I could contribute as much as possible, so how – generally speaking – mankind can get more capable in dealing with complex urgent problems collectively, then that would be a terrific professional goal. So that's… It was 49 years ago. And that's been ever since.
• slide 11: H-LAM/T System (image); Engelbart: Conceptual Framework, 1961
• slide 17 (image): McLuhan
• slide 18 (image): Wim Wenders: Der Himmer über Berlin (D) 1887 – Lied vom Kindsein
• slide 19 (image): Grandpa with Laptop
• slide 21/22: The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and JESS3
• slide 23 (image): ROFL-Copter
• slide 24: Donald Norman: Things That Make Us Smart, 1994
• slide 25 (image): Ted Nelson
• slide 26: Ted Nelson: Computer Lib / Dream Machines, 1974
• slide 28/29: open source microblogging: sweet and laconica

Related

• Social Informatics. Von Menschen, Maschinen und Medien

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Copenhagen Reboot Trilogy

Presentations at reboot convention between 2005 - 2009

1. Back to the Future – The Way to a Personal Dynamic Medium for Creative Thought /reboot 7, 2005
2. A Duel Between Desktop and Web /reboot 9, 2007
3. Co-Evolution of Humans and Tools /reboot 11, 2009

More on reboot:

• A Chat with Doug Engelbart at reboot7 | reboot7 highlights | reboot7 all topics
• reboot8 highlights
• reboot9 highlights
• reboot11 highlights | Meditation from reboot11 by mardahl

In the tradition of reboot:

• Raum Schiff Erde Mediathek /since 2010
• Algorithmische Philosophie – Hildesheimer Trilogie in 4 Teilen /2015-18