Giving a demo of something that is not yet possible (but will be) is different from giving a demo of a commercial product. The goal for a “future demo” is to get people thinking about what might be possible not now, but sometime in the coming years.<\/p>\n
The Mother of all Demos<\/a> by Doug Engelbart in 1968 was a perfect example of this. He wasn’t saying “you can have this now.” He was saying “if we work very hard, one day we will all have this.”<\/p>\n And he was right.<\/p>\n I think that one of my responsibilities as a researcher is to give a such demo every once in a while, in the spirit of Engelbart. The goal of these demos is not to announce that the future has arrived, but rather to gently steer it in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Giving a demo of something that is not yet possible (but will be) is different from giving a demo of a commercial product. The goal for a “future demo” is to get people thinking about what might be possible not now, but sometime in the coming years. The Mother of all Demos by Doug Engelbart … Continue reading “Demoing the future”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28409,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28408\/revisions\/28409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}