¶ Economic Accounting System
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Economic Accounting System:
“Omnisuccess has now become technically feasible but is frustrated by humanity’s clinging ignorantly to the inherently shortsighted one-year accounting system which was suitable only to yesterday’s life support which was entirely dependent upon ‘this year’s’ perishable crop of Sun energy which was then exclusively impounded by land-borne vegetation and water-borne algae. . . No longer is it valid to say, 'We can’t afford to spend. . . Now we are throwing the switch to connect humanity into the Universe’s eternally self-regenerative system. . . . Designing the new accounting system is the task of the Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist. The new economic accounting system must make it eminently clear that whatever we need to do, that we know how to do, we can afford to do.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Introduction to Victor Papanek,'s “Design for the Real World.” Draft dated 18 Feb’71
