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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Sill<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 04, 2013 9:42 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] patents was RE: simulation as an improvement over reality<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>I could have sworn I saw a message here about Doug Englebart's death, but searching my gmail archives I only found this old message from Spike. Anyway, wanted to share this article I got via Google+:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/">http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>A few words on Doug Engelbart<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bret Victor / July 3, 2013<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Doug Engelbart died today. His work has always been very difficult for writers to interpret and explain.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>----<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:17 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>></span>... I will grant at the same time that the US Patent office seems to have<br>severe Alzheimers...spike<br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>Good story for you guys that involves extropians and patents: a few years<br>ago we got an invitation to a party at the home of Doug Englebart, the Xerox<br>PARC guy who invented the mouse and a bunch of other computer stuff<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span> Society's<br>attitude toward intellectual property has experienced a remarkable<br>revolution since Doug was a young inventor<span style='color:#1F497D'>… </span>spike<br><br>_______________________________________________<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dave, thanks for bringing back fond memories of that party at Doug’s house. I just checked my notes; it happened on 11 December 1999. There were about a couple dozen geeks at Doug’s house and he wasn’t even there. Everybody standing around talking technerdery, the guy had about a jillion dollars’ worth of paintings on the wall, and no one I could find even knew who was hosting the party. It was BYOB. All these expensive bottles of wine on the table and almost no one was drinking much of anything. Whoever opened the door had evidently left already, and no one actually knew who had organized the event. It was an early example of what would later be refined into the concept of a flash mob. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>When Doug finally did show up at about 10 pm, he talked for a while with my wife and me, then went on off to bed, with a couple dozen geeks still in his own home! No one in charge, no apparent host or center of attention, just a bunch of technology fans. Now THAT is an example of spontaneous order from chaos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>