2021: Creating a Lexicon of Future

E is for Ephemeralization

Ephemeralization is the term coined by Buckminster Fuller to express the drive to use less material for greater results such as for housing and his geodesic domes. Fuller developed this philosophy partly in reaction to the philosophy of Thomas Malthus. Thomas Malthus felt that the finite resources of planet earth coupled with the increase of human population would eventually result in a running out of resources for the human race. Buckminster Fuller disagreed and felt that technology, improved design, and engineering would help to allow mankind to use the existing resources more efficiently causing greater output with decreased input. His goal was to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.”

Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1938, is the ability of technological advancement to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing,”

What Bucky called Ephemeralization, I call ‘A Simple Entry Point to Complexity’…

We experience ephemeralization when…

…we hear a song that evokes a feeling reminding us of who else we are.

…we see a piece of art with that special blue reminding you of that day when you were 7 and…