¶ Ephemeralization
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Ephemeralization:
"Doing vastly more with vastly and invisibly less is known technically as ephemeralization. The mass production of electronic controls inaugurated automation. With automation has come-- just now-- a dawning awareness of the invisible avalanche of ephemeralization.
“A key part of ephemeralization’s acceleration has been played by the return of approximately all the world’s metallic scrap into complete reuse. This scrap recirculation released by progressive obsolescence of earlier inventions by newer more efficient ones . . . constitutes a fundamental factor in the doing-more-with-less process.”
