Index
3Accounting.
See Economic accounting
4Anticipatory design science, 22
5Anti-entropy, 101--102 See also Entropy
6Areas. See Topology
7Astronauts: all humans as, 56
8Atomic energy, 129.
See also Energy Automation: of human biological processes, 54; and loss of jobs, 124
9Automobiles: ownership of, 134
10Bank wealth, 89
11Behavioral sciences: in educational process, 26
12Brain: as coordinating switchboard, 25; difference between mind and, 101; imitated by computer, 118
13British Empire and the great pirates, 37--38
14Categoryitis, 31
15Children: as comprehensivists, 25--26 Circle. See Great circle Comprehension: defined, 77 Comprehensivity of Great Pirates, 34--35; Great Pirates abandoning their, 50--51; man forced to reestablish, 53
16Computers: provide new impersonal problem solutions, 45; as superspecialist, 53; strategy combined with general systems theory and synergetics, 93--94; as imitation of human brain, 118; beginning of, 122; resolving ideological
17dogmas, 138
18Craftsmen: early specialized, 29; tools of, 122; in the industrial economy, 123
19Cross-breeding: of world man, 131
20Cybernetics: defined, 95
21Darwin, Charles: theory of animate evolution, 47
22Da Vinci, Leonardo, 35--36
23Democracy, 92--93
24Design: capability of early world men, 28--29; of spaceship Earth’s internal support systems, 59--60; of universal evolution, 111--112; revolution in, 134
25Design science: anticipatory, governing yesterday’s naval mastery, 22
26Divide and conquer: grand strategy of, 39
27E = MC2, 69, 96. See also Energy
28Economic accounting: by great pirates, 94--95; synergy in, 103; need for realistic, 112
29Educational task: to allow physical and metaphysical success, 130
30Einstein, Albert: formula E = MC2, 45, 69, 96; definition of physical universe, 70; reassess universe, 97
31Electromagnetic spectrum: great pirates’ first use of, 43--44; effecting human evolution, 110 Energy: impounding of sun’s radiant, 58, 59, 93; generalized law of, 73; savings as fossil fuels, 94, 129; in synergetics, 95; finite, 96; harnessing of, 129; atomic exploitation of, 129
32Entropy: energy systems eventually run down, 46; assumed universe subject to, 96; wealth as antientropy, 101
33Environment: early society inability to cope with, 26; evolution synergeticaily produced, 103--104; changes in physical, 110
34Euler, Leonhard, 81
35Evolution: success of human dependent on mastering metaphysical, 46; design and patterns in, 49, 54, 111--112; man’s feeling about, 53--54; inexorable, 55; our present position in, 65--66; effected by electromagnetic spectrum, 110; comprehending phases of, 127
36Experiences: to extract generalized principles, 62; is finite, 70
37Exploitation: of atomic energy, 129; of fossil fuels, 129. See also Energy
38Extinction, 48
39Failures: humanity’s, 24--25 Fellowships, 125
40Forecasting, 22
41Fossil fuel: energy savings account, 94, 128; expending of, 129. See also Energy
42Generalized principles: minds discovering, 21; extracted from human experience, 61--62; first was leverage, 63; surviving with, 118; inventively employed only through mind, 127
43Genera! systems theory: as tool of high intellectual advantage, 67, 70--71; combined with computer strategy and synergetics, 95
44Geodesic lines, 76
45GI Bill, 115
46Gold: demand system inadequate, 88--98; used by Great Pirates for trading, 90
47Grand strategy: divide and conquer, 39; organizing our, 65.
48See also Strategy
49Great circle: defined, 76
50Great Pirates: as sea mastering people, 34; feared bright people, 35; use of logistics by, 37; and British Empire, 37--38; use of local strong man as king by, 39; tutoring of bright specialists by, 40; in world competition, 41, 43; becoming extinct, 44, 50; rules of accounting still used, 45
51Gross national product: estimate for 1970, 108--109
52Growth: physical and metaphysical, 61
53‘‘Have-nots’’ struggle with ‘‘haves’’ produces war, 87
54‘‘Haves’’: struggle with ‘‘have-nots’’ produces war, 87
55Heisenberg, Werner: principle of indeterminism, 72
56Human beings, as astronauts, 56; will be free, 111; employing real wealth, 124; characteristics in Mexico, 132. See also Man
57Humanity: exists in poverty, 23--24; on Earth’s surface, 27; extinction of, 49; place in evolution of, 66; function of, in universe, 83--84; and standard of living of, 102--103
58Ideologies: political, 48; resolving dangerous dogmas of, 138
59Indeterminism: Heisenberg’s principle of, 72
60India: population problems in, 113 Industrialization: demonstration of world, 104
61Industry: tooling of, 22, 116, 122, 133; production increased by world wars, 116; craftsmen in the economy, 123. See also Tools
62Information: multiplies wealth, 104--105 Initiative, 45
63Intellect: as humans’ supreme faculty, 60--61; frees man of special case superstition, 63; use of as man’s function in universe, 99
64International Monetary Fund: 1967 deliberations of, 88
65Invention, 134
66Inventory: of variables in problem solving, 67--68
67Jobs: loss of in automation, 124
68King: as great pirate’s local strong man, 39, 40
69Law of conservation of energy: defined, 98. See also Energy
70Learning: always increases, 99; man’s past, 131; industrial retooling revolution, 133
71Lesser circle: defined, 76
72Leverage: first generalized principle, 63. See also Generalized principles
73Life: as synergetic, 79--80; hypothetical development of support systems in, 107--108
74Lincoln, Abraham, 45--46
75Lines, 81. See also Topology
76Machine: spaceship Earth as, 59--60 Macrocosm: as universe outside the system, 70
77Malthus, Thomas, 47
78Man: utterly helpless as newborn, 61;
79as adaptable organism, 118--119.
80See also Human beings
81Mass production: and mass consumption, 123
82Mathematics: improved by advent of zero, 36. See also Topology
83Metals: not destroyed in war, 117 Metaphysical: initiative confused between religion and politics, 45; masters the physical, 46; experiences not included in physical universe, 68; defies ‘‘closed systems’’ analysis, 69; in synergetics, 95; need for, in educational task, 130
84Mexico: human characteristics in, 132 Michelangelo, 35--36
85Microcosm: universe inside the system, 70
86Mind: comprehends general principles, 24, 127, 128; difference between brain and, 101; fellowships of, 125
87Money: as bank wealth, 89.
88See also Wealth
89Moon gravity: as income wealth, 94 More-with-less: and generalized principles of, 63
90Myth: of wealth as money, 114;
91of population explosion, 136 Natural laws: and Great Pirates, 34.
92See also Generalized principles Navies: and Great Pirates, 38 Negatives: yesterday’s, realized, 24 North America: early crossbreeding men in, 131
93Photosynthesis: impounds sun’s energy, 59
94Pirates. See Great Pirates
95Planck, Max, 97
96Planners: more comprehensive than other professions, 67
97Points. See Topology
98Politicians: local, asked to make world work, 51.
99See also Ideologies
100Pollution: as survival problem, 85 ‘‘Poluto’’: as new name for planet, 85 Population: problems in India, 113;
101explosion in as myth, 136 Poverty: humanity existing in, 23--24 Principles. See Generalized principles Problem solving: by yesterday’s
102contrivings, 21
103Resources: of Earth unevenly distributed, 29; no longer integratable, 52; unique materials made ‘‘on order,’’ 106
104Revolution: design and invention, 134
105Safety factor: in man’s evolution, 111--112
106Schools: beginning of, 41.
107See also Specialization; Strategy Second law of thermodynamics, 46 Senses: Great Pirates relying on, 43 Ships: logistics for production and maintenance, 37. See also Vessels
108Slavery: of specialist expert, 41; human, 107
109Sovereignties: claim on humans in, 37--38; categoryitis in, 31
110Spaceship Earth: present condition of, 121
111Specialist: computer as super, 53 Specialization: society operates on theory of, 25; early leaders who developed, 26, 30, 33; intellectual beginning of schools, 41--42; specialist as slave, 41; over causing extinction, 48, 49; scientific, applied toward weaponry, 52--53
112Speed of light: discovery of, 97 Spending: regarding energy is obsolete, 98
113Spoken word: as first industrial tool, 122
114Strategy: secret and anticipatory, of Great Pirates, 35; comprehensive of naval war colleges, 37
115Structures: industrial tool enclosing, 116--117
116Students: comprehend elimination of war, 134
117Sun: radiation as income wealth, 58, 94. See also Energy
118Survival: physical and metaphysical, 61; potentials increased by intellect, 63
119Sword: powerful men of, 26.
See also Great Pirates
120Synergetics. See Synergy
121Synergy: defined, 78, 95; defines universal evolution, 79; combined with computer strategy and general systems theory, 95; wealth develops interest through, 102; in economic accounting, 103; in humanity escaping from local identity, 106
122System: universe as biggest, 68; thought is, 72; first subdivision of universe, 71, 83;
123variables in evolution, 83
124Technologies: as substitute after war, 117
125Telford, Thomas: as Great Pirates’ specialist, 37
126Thinking: long-distance future of, 22; in terms of whole, 67; as a system, 72; dismissal of irrelevancy in, 76--77; tackling problems with, 83; humans free to, 126.
127See also Intellect; Mind
128Time: as relative, 135
129Tools: industrial, 116; externalizations of integral functions, 117; craft and industrial extinctions, 122; spoken word, 122
130Topology: mathematics of comprehension, 77; discovered by Euler, 81; patterns of lines, points and areas, 80--81. See also Geodesic lines; Great circle; Lesser circle
131Underlying order in randomness, 74--75 Universe: as biggest system, 68, 96; physical defined by scientists, 68--69, 70, 72, 97; subdivision, 71; generalized law of energy conservation in, 73; defined by synergy, 79; humanity’s function in, 83, 112
132Van Allen belts, 58
133Variables: inventorying of and
problem solving in, 67
134Vectorial geometry: mathematics
of comprehension, 75--80
135Vessels: use of, in venturing, 28
136War: beginning of the great class, 47--48, 87; as age-old lethal formula of ignorant men, 52; as taking priority over real problems, 87; students comprehend elimination of, 134
137Water: desalinization of, as problem solution, 85--86. Pollution
138Wealth: generated by integrating resources, 29; as a safety factor, 61; defined, 88, 93; irreversible in evolutionary processes, 91; society’s real, 91, 94,124; income is sun radiation and moon gravity, 94; as anti-entropy, 101; can only increase, 101,105; common, of humanity, 105; of the U.S., 108; of know-how produced by GI Bill. 115
139Weaponry: scientific specialization applied toward, 52
140Wholes: thinking in terms of, 67; systems in synergy, 78. See also Systems
141World: and first seafarers, 28; sea ventures thought in terms of, 30; asking local politicians to make it work, 51; defined, 104, 119; veterans returning from World War II, 115; increase industrial production in, 115--116; cross-breeding in, 131-132
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143Jaime Snyder is a singer-songwriter, a writer, and producer/director of alternative media. His film projects include: Pablo Casals’: A Cry for Peace; Henry Miller: To Paint is to Love Again; and the award-winning films Modeling the Universe and Reflections: Buckminster Fuller. He is co-Founder of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. As Buckminster Fuller’s grandson, he studied and work with Fuller until his passing in 1983.
144Buckminster Fuller speaking with architectural students at the University of Detroit in 1970, during filming of The World of Buckminster Fuller, directed by Robert Snyder.
145Photograph by Jaime Snyder