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The Zeitgeist of Metacognition: A Bauhaus View

Story and Context

The Cornerstone (1987)

The Crossroads (1989)

High Risk, High Reward (1993)

Paradigm of the Future (1995)

East Meets West: The Internet in China (1997)

Architecture in the Information Age (1998)

Learning From Curitiba (1999)

Sun Microsystems Video for the World Economic Forum (2000)

A Massive Change in Thinking (2013)

A Second Family (1991)

Hometown Service (1992)

Architecture of Change (1994)

Internet on Sun (1996)

The Meaning of Small Things: Miniiurization in Japan (1998)

Human Origins of the Internet (1999)

Sun Microsystems Video for the World Economic Forum (1999)

The Evolution of Communication (2005)

Delighted (2014)

The History of Modern Computing revealed itself before my eyes through a series of cinematic experiences as a Writer and Producer/Filmmaker. I seized upon the freedom to write my own script, early, interpreting the zeitgeist of an era in real time.

Educated in Bauhaus principles I engaged with a world of builders, my subjects, documenting the phenomenal growth of Sun Microsystems and several other companies, influential in the development of the internet and computing tools and concepts that define our lives today.

Whereas today, PhD computer scientists have written the user out of the picture in an industry driven by greed and indifference, stacking the deck in favor of autocratic control and Wall Street’s venture capital exuberance, and what became an anti-historical disconnect with people. Once, we remembered a hand made future built on the grit of primarily mid-western farmers.

Today’s systems were born from a post-war idealism to make the world a better place by deploying new tools to augment human capabilities in solving big problems, creating a more liveable future.

As Douglas Engelbart envisioned:

He would focus his career on making the world a better place
Any serious effort to make the world better would require some kind of organized effort that harnessed the collective human intellect of all people to contribute to effective solutions.
If you could dramatically improve how we do that, you'd be boosting every effort on the planet to solve important problems – the sooner the better.
Computers could be the vehicle for dramatically improving this capability.[

It has become a world sorely missing.

-Robert Lundahl

Anthropologist | Emmy®-Winning Filmmaker | Investigative Journalist

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