RE: ephemeralization

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 23:54:34 MST

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    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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