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would bring about a fundamental reorientation of human life on the Universe. This concept of accelerating acceleration had been discovered by Galileo circa 1600 with respect to the first laws of motion. They were not conceived of, however, as accelerating ecological evolution up to the date of my intuiting and acting upon its arrival. Discussion of economic and evolutionary acceleration does not begin in the intellectual publications until more than a decade later. Nor did my 1922-27 discoveries that ever higher tool performance per units of pounds, time, and energy fallout from the weapons industry into the domestic consumer economy, when erstwhile weaponry-support contractors sought to exploit their advanced technological position after their war goods contracts were terminated by progressive obsolescance. It was resulting in doing ever more with less, ever more with ever less in the domestic economy. This domestic economy thought only in terms of more security only to be accomplished with more weight.
This reversal of affairs seemed to me to suggest that the Malthus dictum that only a few could survive, might be wrong. It seemed that it could come to pass that all humanity might"
