Engelbart Legacy Mural courtesy of NextNow member Eileen Clegg, Visual Insight http://www.visualinsight.net

The Engelbart Legacy Project collaboration supports the development of artifacts, web-based communities, interactive events and exhibits, and publications that will help us visualize and re-imagine efforts made over the last 40 years to augment human intelligence through the co-evolution of human systems and technology, specifically as originally envisioned by pioneer Doug Engelbart.

Widely known as the inventor of the mouse SRI International – News in San Francisco in 1968 during what came to be called, the “Mother of all Demos” Engelbart demonstrated the first uses of:

• The graphical user interface
• The mouse for control and user interaction
• The Internet as a communications medium
• Hyperlinked media
• Live Telepresence

“For all of us working with the powerful extensions of Doug’s ideas that now exist on the Web, on our desktops, laptops and mobiles, this is a time to celebrate Doug’s extraordinary vision and his lifelong quest to help us all reach the heights of collective intelligence necessary to deal with increasing complexity and wicked problems of a globalizing world.”  http://collectiveiq.blogspot.com.

The ARTIS Foundation’s mission is to serve the general public and educational community through dissemination of free educational multimedia in order to raise awareness about such themes as media literacy, the environment, sustainability, and social change. NNC will work with ARTIS and environmental and social change organizations in the development of web–based communities, activities and publications.

The ARTIS Foundation has 2 main objectives:

1. To work with environmental & social change filmmakers, artists and celebrities in the creation of entertaining, educational feature films.
2. To create educational DVD series and other downloadable educational materials (videos, public service announcements, powerpoint presentations, slideshows and printable materials).