Lag and Precession

The  First  Bucky Call for the year


Please make sure you read pages 139- 150  of Critical Path.


I have some of Fuller’s thoughts following.


Kelly


1.     Money less…… credit less


2.     Money 20th century economic invention


3.     Politicians’ Effectiveness


4.     Personal Authority


5.     Environment and artifacts


6.     Measurable levels of improvement less materials, ergs of energy, second of time


7.     The big question remained: How do you obtain the money to live with and to acquire the materials and tools with which to work?


The Answer: Precession

Half-Century experience also discovered the natural, unacceleratable lags exsisting between inventions and industrial uses in various technical categories, which occur as follows:


  1. Electronics 2 years
  2. Aerodynamics 5 years
  3. Automobiles 10 years
  4. Rail Roads 15 years

Lags have consistenly characterized the lenghts of gestation periods


Gestation Rates In Days and by Species: