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"commonwealth. The materials from this mine are the means of realizing ever more advanced design out of our improving scientific potentials. As a consequence, metal scrap and plastic scrap now recirculate increasingly.
"New inventions increase our productive capacity per man-hour and per pound of resource–our ‘performance capability’, as it is called. Every time we mine obsolete structures or equipment for metal or plastic to use in improved designs, we get increased performance out of the same tonnage of fundamental chemical resources. Which suggests, for instance, that we should take all the obsolete two-ton automobiles off the road, melt them up, and produce from the resulting scrap twice as many one-ton automobiles, each of higher capability than the former cars in terms of performance per passenger and of fuel gallons per safely accomplished higher-velocity mile.
“All the world’s great cities that grew up prior to New York were products of the Newtonian ‘no change’ norms. Their romance lies in their preoccupation with man’s historical-bastioned past. What makes New York City ‘the most important something’ in all history is that long before the atomic” Cite "WAVE TRANSFCR:ATION OF THE CITY, N.Y. GUIDEBOOK, 1964
