¶ Ephemeralization
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Ephemeralization:
“Not only is man continually doing more with less-- which is a principle of trend we will call ephemeralization-- a corollary of the principle of synergy-- but he is also demonstrating certain other visible trends of an epochal nature. Not only does he continually increase literacy but he continually affords more years of more advanced study to more people. The man becomes master of the machine and machines are introduced to carry on every kind of physical work with increased precision, effectiveness, and velocity. His skilled crafts, formerly intermittently patronized, graduate from labor status to continuity of employment as research and development technicians. As man is progressively disemployed as a quantity production, muscle-and-reflex machine, he becomes progressively re-employed in the rapidly increasing army of research and development-- or of production-inaugurating engineering-- or of educational and recreational extension, as plowed back increment of industrialization.”
¶ Citations
- COMPREHENSIVE DESIGNER, pp.3-4, 1 Jun’49
