¶ Invisibility
Index Entry
Invisibility:
“We have gone into so much activity outside the sensorial range of frequencies that we really might say as of present times in the total economic generation of increasing capability of man on Earth, that certainly 99.9 per cent of all that is going on now and has any significance is non-sensorial and is in the non-sensorial ranges. We could say then that my talk about transinvisibility is not a trending a trending of the industrializations already invisible. That is what it is but I am talking about the world society and the way we think. I would say that we all still think almost entirely in the sensorial range so we are impressed with what we can see. In the great scheme of the use of our tools men have employed the theoretical, that is the most recently discovered behaviors of nature that they haven’t found any practical use for up to this moment, in the great emergencies such as war they will take the theoretical and try to find ways of applying it to a new transenendental capability that will overcome the enemy. We find that in the great history of technology the materials that can be turned into tools are relatively scarce-- men had to seek them. The number of minds which knew how to deal with them were few.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #1, p. 14. 1 Jul’62
