From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 23:54:34 MST
Entropyfoe writes
> [Lee Corbin wrote]
> > I just read this very informative, readable paper by Francis
> > Heylighen which introduced me to the term "ephemeralization".
> Ephemeralization a term used [coined?] by Buckminster Fuller
> to describe the doing of more with less.
Yes, it was coined by Fuller, and to prevent misattribution,
Heylighen does credit Fuller with it.
> Now brilliantly proven out with the acceleration of chip
> technology. The tendency for the material component of
> systems to decrease and the idea or intelligence component
> to increase [Extropy].
I still need to get further into Heylighen's paper,
but perhaps you would say more about the way that
chip technology illustrates ephemeralization.
> I have always seen an analogy of CR [calorie restriction].
And you've completely lost me here.
Lee
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