Relevant Notes taken from the article from Bill Paton, Solutioneer paton_bill@hotmail.com
-"Better than 99% of humanity's frustrations are occasioned by surprise encounters with the almost completely invisible evolutionary-transformation trendings of human ecology and the latter's environmental transformings."
-Two main and clearly differentiated modes of biological and zoological survival are STATIC (Static) and MOBILE (Dynamic). The biologically static are subjectively advantaged. The environment brings them what they need. The mobiles are objectively advantaged to "go" and get what they need or want.
-"Only one's own "personality" and life are ownable."
-"For only the last decade of all history has total physical and economic success for all humanity been conceded by science as feasible. Realization of this extraordinary potential is importantly frustrated, however, by several factors:"
We must ask "From whence will come the tools of conceptuality which will emancipate science and permit its assumption of the prime social, direct, conscious, sensorial responsibility?"
What can and will bring the world society's leaders and world society itself to comprehend its economic potential and its essential function in universe and to its successful performance of that function.
-A problem adequately stated is a problem fundamentally ripe and potential of solution.
BUCKY'S 40 QUESTIONS
First I refer you to my own attempts to make experience-founded-ergo scientifically definitive--answers to all 40 of the questions.
The results of these questions are developed into
Bucky's Dominate Concepts:
DOMINATE CONCEPTS
Concept Two: Humanity
The human is not an accidental onlooker "who happened
in on the 'Play of Life,' but an essential syntropic function of Universe."
-Unity is plural and at minimum two.
-Specialization is no longer appropriate.
-It is my intent to advantage all without depriving anyone.
Concept Three: Children
"Focus on new life. Since children are the hope of the
future and 98% of the environment's positive or negative effects upon new
life are wrought by age thirteen, it is obvious that effective work in
advantaging life through environment can mainly be realized within the
first thirteen years."
Concept Four: Teleology
Teleology by Bucky's definition means "the intuitive
conversion by brain and mind of special case, subjective experiences into
generalized principles...which permit the individual to reform the environment...so
as to provide ultimately higher advantages for men" and to inspire others
to do likewise.
DESIGN SCIENCE EVENT FLOW:
SUBJECTIVE: (Search, Research)
-Teleology
-Intuition
-Conception
-Apprehension
-Comprehension
-Experiment
-Feedback
Generalization
Objective Development
-Prototyping #1
-Prototyping #2
-Prototyping #3
-Production Design
-Production Modification
Reduction to Practice
-Tooling
-Production
-Distribution
-Installation
-Maintenance...Service
Regeneration
-Reinstallation
-Replacement
-Removal
-Scrapping
-Recirculation
Concept Five: Reform the Environment, Not Man.
Bucky's philosophy and strategy confine design initiative
to reforming only the environment and never to emulate the almost universal
attempts of humans to reform and restrain other humans by political actions,
laws, and codes.
Concept Six: General Systems Theory
Using the generalized principles he has discovered, Bucky
says "I always start all problem-solving with Universe, and thereafter
subdivide progressively to identify a special local problem within the
total of problems." He thus attacks it comprehensively and anticipatorily.
Concept Seven: Industrialization.
"Industrialization consists of tools". It involves "all
experiences of all men everywhere in history." Bucky sees it as inherently
comprehensive and omni-interrelated in respect to all humanity. And he
believes that, though subsystems of it are run shortsightedly by selfishly
motivated people, the whole works inadvertently towards ultimately providing
all men with higher standards of living....Because energy plus know-how
is wealth, "the integrating world industrial networks mean ultimate access
of all humanity to the total operative commonwealth of Earth."
-Wealth cannot alter yesterday. It can only alter today
and tomorrow.
-Energy cannot decrease. Knowledge can only increase.
Concept Eight: Design Science
Design Science is concerned "with the scheduling of the
complex interaction of the general systems events of industrialization."
The rapid advance of technology in one field- air transportation, for example
- must be "comprehensively integrated with all other vastly accelerating
environment relationship transformations." The rental service industry
must be compounded with time-designing doubling and possibly tripling the
environment-control capabilities.
Concept Nine: The Service Industry
"Humanity is gradually trending towards becoming Worldians."
Therefore, the static appurtenances of life - houses, automobiles, even
typewriters - will all be rented like telephones because of man's increasing
mobility. Amplifying this thought in another article, Bucky foresees man's
ability to deploy at will all over the earth and the solar system by means
of autonomous structures made livable by our astronauts life-support 'black
box'. And he adds, "Quite clearly, man, free to enjoy all of his planets...will
also be swiftly outward bound to occupy even greater ranges of the universe."
Concept Ten: Ephemeralization
"The acceleration of doing more with less...will complete
the task of providing enough for all humanity within another thirty-four
years...despite political systems that deliberately divide society and
set one group against another." Bucky believes that without the interference
of political systems it could be done in twenty years.
Concept Eleven: Prime Design Initiative
Bucky believes that it is essential for the individual,
invention-developing pioneer to maintain his economic initiative and not
get tied up with the massive capital-cum-bureaucracy of large corporations,
despite the leverage of their wealth. They only seemingly overwhelm the
individual with their economic advantages in respect to investment capital,
working capital, credit capital and influence.
-it is fatal for an invention-developing pioneer to own
his own shop and tools because of overhead.
-It is fatal to build up any large staff dependent on
any one economic product or focus.
-the lone individual has complete freedom from bureaucracy.
Concept Twelve: Self-Discipline
Instead of the obligation to make a living, Bucky substitutes
the higher obligation of the individual's syntropic responsibility in Universe.
He says " Do not mind if I am not understood as long as I am not misunderstood."
DESIGN SCIENCE CURRICULUM
Concept Thirteen: Comprehensive Coordination
Comprehensivity instead of specialization is Bucky's
key to successful design competence. His foremost self-discipline is never
to try to sell one of his ideas to others. He will just design and test
it, and wait for others, who need it, to come to him. He only goes where
he is asked to speak because, if you force your ideas on people they listen
unwillingly, but if they ask you to speak to them - especially if they
pay a high fee -"they are very receptive."
-the attempt to discipline myself to be an effective
explorer in the realm of mastery of principles of comprehensive anticipatory
design science.
-I assumed in 1917 that nature did not have separate
departments for chemistry, mathematics, physics, biology, history etc.
-I am quite confident that I have discovered an importantly
large area of arithmetical, geometrical ...vectorial coordinate system
employed by nature itself. It is a triangular and tetrahedronal system.
it uses 60 degree instead of 90 degree coordination.
Bucky incessantly engages in trying to make all his previous
inventions obsolete by designing better ones.
Concept Fourteen: World Community and its Subcommunities
Bucky believes that Chapter Three of World History is
just beginning, in which world man will realize his potential for success
as a function of Universe through his accelerating mastery of "vast inanimate,
inexhaustible energy sources combined with doing more with less."