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Making the World Work:
"of its potential life span. It is a ‘you or me to the death’ situation that leads from impasse to ultimate showdown by arms. Thus more and more students around the world are learning of the new and surprising alternative to politics-- the design science revolution, which alone can solve the problem.
“The students are thrilled to realize that it is themselves they must turn to in order to make the world work, through practical use of their university science and technology resources and their laboratory-supported design-science capabilities. The students know that they need no more license to invent the tools that will make the world work than the Wright brothers needed a license to invent one of the most needed more-with-less tools-- the airplane. The students’ task is clear-cut. It is to increase the overall efficiency of the world’s mechanical devices from their present four percent to an overall efficiency of 12 percent. This is easy, since overall efficiencies of up to 80 percent are now feasible. The students know that if they invent the right tools, the tools will be used, given the right emergency. And they know that their design science revolution is bound to work because the”
