¶ More with Less: Sea Technology (1)
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More with Less: Sea Technology:
"Next thing: So that’s why I said call it World War I because it involved the newest… and was on a world accounting basis instead of local. And the whole world was suddenly gaining. Now since-- as a consequence of that we’ve gone from less, in 1900. One more very important input, for all of you-- and this has never been on the books. There’s nothing in any book of economics about-- not even a sentence. The most highly classified of all the-- I was regular USN-- of all the information-- Navy-- and you’d learn by design, the same tonnage, this kind of sea, so you get into optimum design and that was the tonnage of it so the enemy could see exactly what size ship you were building and he had one of the same tonnage. And it was not until you came into contact that you knew who could outfire the… who with the same amount of tonnage could outperform the other, who was getting more out of the same.
“Now this is the very essence of the sea-- going back early to the wooden sailing ship. Two ships of the same size. You built your ship locally, used the best trees you had for your mast (but they weren’t particularly good) and the best fabrics you had for your sails. But you came to a country like-- spruce–”
