Acceleration of Change Card C00107

RBF DEFINITIONS
Acceleration of Change:					(2)

"would bring about a fundamental reorientation of human life
on the Universe. This concept of accelerating acceleration
had been discovered by Galileo circa 1600 with respect to
the first laws of motion. They were not conceived of, however,
as accelerating ecological evolution up to the date of my
intuiting and acting upon its arrival. Discussion of economic
and evolutionary acceleration does not begin in the intellect-
ual publications until more than a decade later. Nor did my
1922-27 discoveries that ever higher tool performance per
units of pounds, time, and energy fallout from the weapons
industry into the domestic consumer economy, when erstwhile
weaponry-support contractors sought to exploit their advanced
technological position after their war goods contracts were
terminated by progressive obsolescance. It was resulting in
doing ever more with less, ever more with ever less in the
domestic economy. This domestic economy thought only in terms
of more security only to be accomplished with more weight.

"This reversal of affairs seemed to me to suggest that the
Malthus dictum that only a few could survive, might be wrong.
It seemed that it could come to pass that all humanity might"

- RBF to B. Farrell; Bear Island, Tape 6A, p.16, 16 Aug 70