Ephemeralization

This is not directly related but could be useful to relate to our philosophy.


Buckminster Fuller came up with the term 'ephemeralization'. He uses it to describe our technological advancement as something that helps us do more with less and then more with even less, until finally we can do almost anything with almost nothing

Others have talked about the possibility that emphemeralization can lead to massive complexity in non-physical systems, creating a a difficult and stressful job for anyone involved in creation and maintenance.

An example of emphemeralization could be a digital watch, which does the same job better than a clock of 150 years ago, while using a fraction of the materials and man hours to produce.

I think that maybe biological emphemeralization might work better on face value. Something that we help design that does its own thing afterwards without maintenance. It might even evolve to become more stable in its enviroment, or more useful to us as we use it and it 'remembers' experiences.