What Is Ephemeralization?

Buckminster fuller had very ironic way of making this point. He had this term that he coined, ephemeralization. And his definition for it was the process by which you can do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing. But in any case, the point is, think about something like it always. Selds li cobeabetie,. well, thepoint is, the very last bit is an ironic drit, because it is not absolutely nothing that you can do it with. But the point is it can be minimized. You know, a material can have great strength with almost no atoms in it by virtue of geometry, right

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