4 The Cumulative Nature of Wealth

5.1WEALTH. The measurable degree of forwardly organized environmental control, in terms of quickly convertible energy, capacities and performance ratioed system capabilities per capita, per diem.

5.2 Wealth is now without practical limit. All the constituents of wealth are now demonstrably inexhaustible and are all on inventory to man’s immediate willing. Science has hooked up the everyday economic plumbing to the cosmic reservoir.

5.3 You can now have your cake and eat it. The more you eat, the more and the better the quality of the cakes to be had by further production.

5.4 Science continually does more with less each time it obsoletes and scraps old inventions. Scrap is resolved to some part of the inventory of the ninety two regenerative chemical elements. Interim improvement in technical measurement of performance makes possible an ever higher magnitude of new performance by reuse of the same quantity of the original inventory of the chemi- cal elements. Telephone messages per given cross section of copper wire increased from one to several conversations at the same time, then to scores, then to hundreds of messages taking place concurrently. So rapid is the rate of gain of telephone technology per given amount of copper that the telephone company has an almost inexhaustible mine of copper in its progressively obsolete equipment. The chief engineer of the Bell Telephone Company stated in 1936 that the stocks of copper owned by the telephone company, obtained from scrapping old equipment, would be sufficient for them to expand their service from the United States network to a world network without buying further quantities of new copper. This does not mean that they would always keep the wires. Part of the copper might go into the radio equipment between the long distance centrals.

5.5 The formula for common wealth production is: Ever greater investment of now unlimited energy in redesigned tools and end product. The energy investments may be in the form of heat treatments, precision tolerances, metallurgical alloying, etc.always contriving to afford greater tensile strength, finer edge, greater wear, etc.; and the degree of greater performance thus accom- plished is always a net increment of common wealth. Because more has been done with less, the balance can go into new degrees of mastery by man of his given environment.

5.6 Ever greater reinvestments of cumulatively advancing technology. This is the regeneration of intellectual advantage.

5.7 Result: The provision of higher magnitudes of performance per pound of the ninety-two regenerative chemical elements, and per hour of man’s time, and per unit of energetic expenditure,ergo, again net increment, of reinvestible performance advantage, i.e., wealth.

5.8 Footnote: The Cumulative Nature of Wealth is an extract from ’Ideas and Integrities’ by R. B. Fuller, published by Prentice Hall, Inc., 1963.

5.9 We could progressively scrap the whole paraphernalia of civilization’s present mechanical equipment, both production and end product, replacing these with improved mechanics and products of fractional dimension as compared to the scrapped mechanics, while netting not only a higher standard of living performance for ourselves, but enough raw materials and improved know-how to expand the physical apparatus of our standard of living to serve not just our U.S.A. seven per cent but half the human family. The advantages gained by the latter would allow them in turn to develop new sources, sum totally providing the new advances of science and industry to serve all the peoples of the world. What to do about war surpluses here and abroad is clearly indicated in these truths. Scrap them one hundred per cent and reprocess the chemical elements into higher and more appropriate use forms, thus generating common world wealth. Spend ingenuity on brand new higher performance products rather than on makeshift application of obsolete gadgets.

5.10 Materials Equals energy as mass; physicists’ law of conservation states that: energy can neither be created nor lost, ergo, there cannot be realistic energy depletion and borrowing from diminishing sources. There is no possibility of absolute debt * occurring in the new economics made available through the accomplishments of science. This is because the basic constituents of the wealth can no longer be depleted.

5.11 Know-how Technology (instrumented and documented intellect) improves with every re-employment because experience is consolidated in increasing degrees of precision, behavior and dimensional data.

5.12 Power Energy-larger and larger blocks of which, as inherent principles of an inexhaustible universe, become available to man’s control account. The impoundment of ever greater blocks of energy within the arrangements of the ninety-two chemical elements to give higher degrees of performance of structure and mechanics constitutes the actual means of harvesting of universal wealth. It is as though the phenomena which we call raw materials, which are in fact our ninety-two chemical elements, were a fleet of cargo vessels into which we load ever greater cargoes of energy, and as we load them they give higher degrees of controlled performance. As a result, we increase our control over our fate and that is the function of wealth.

5.13 Faith Inexhaustible faith of man in the validity of himself as an effective factor in the biological equation of the universe, to which latter the principle of essential priority of the commonweal is implicitthat is, that the individual is a product and servant of a plurality (but that his best service to the commonweal

5.14 * Because debt is a convention of traditional government, it will be increased to eventual absurdity. There is no other means of eliminating it in a democracy. Revolution could eliminate it only by democratic suicide.

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5.16 can be indicated only by admonition of the individual intellect, which can best integrate all factors of the creative equations). In the principle of mass production industry, the significance of the individual as a machine of production continually diminishes and his importance as a consumer increases proportionally. The intellectual productive ability of science and technology which displaces the indivi- dual as a productive slave is cumulative to the whole history of intellect.

5.17 Through the new operating requirements of the transcendental industry, society must arrange a debtless system of increasing the availability of industrial services to all individuals and concurrently to an increasing number of their infinite needs in order to satisfy the science-industry-man equation. If not satisfied by creative ends, the forces now involved will be articulated to man’s ultimate destruc- tion because he lacked faith in his own validityhis validity as a never-ending, dynamic process of inclusion and refinement.

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5.19 Profile of the Industrial Revolution (Elements Inventory Chronology)

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5.21 EARTH ORBIT IN MAN MADE ENVIRONMENT CONTROL: PRODUCT OF SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE PER UNIT OF INVESTED RESOURCES

5.22 PROFILE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AS EXPOSED BY THE CHRONOLOGICAL RATE OF ACQUISITION OF THE BASIC INVENTORY OF COSMIC ABSOLUTESTHE 92 ELEMENTS

5.23 LEONARDO DA VINCI COLUMBUS COPERNICUS GALILEO

5.24 ALGORISMA INTRODUCES CYPHER INTO EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION FROM ARABS, THUS PROVIDING SCIENCE WITH PRACTICAL CALCULATING FACILITY

5.25 9 ELEMENTS WERE ACQUIRED BY CIVILIZATION PRIOR TO HISTORIC RECORD OF THE EVENTS, PROBABLY IN ASIA MILLENIUMS AGO

5.26 CARBON =6 C LEAD =82 Pb TIN =50 Sn MERCURY =80 Hg SILVER =47 Ag COPPER =29 Cu SULPHUR =16 S GOLD =79 Au IRON =26 Fe

5.27 10 ARSENIC #33 As (first recorded discovery) Bavarian 11 ANTIMONY #51 Sb German

5.28 APPROXIMATE 150 1250 A.D. 1270 1290 1310 1330 1350 1370 1390 1410 1430 1450 1470 1490 1510 1530 1550 1570 1590 1610 1630

5.29 1650 1670 1690 1710 1730 1750 1770 1790 1810 1830 1850 1870 1890 1910 1930 1950 1970 1990 2010 A.D.

5.30 STEAMSHIP AIRPLANE ROCKET

5.31 STEEL DYNAMO RADIO AUTOMOBILE FLIGHT ELECTRONICS TALKY

5.32 TECHNICAL ACQUISITION BY SCIENCE OF 92 ATOMIC ELEMENTS IS COMPLETED 1932 AND SUPER ATOMICS COMMENCE

5.33 103* LAWRENCIUM #103 Lw U.S.A. 102* NOBELIUM #102 No Eng. Swed. U.S.A. 101* MENDELEVIUM #101 Md U.S.A. 100* FERMIUM #100 Fm U.S.A. 99* EINSTEINIUM #99 Es U.S.A. 98* CALIFORNIUM #98 Cf U.S.A. 97* BERKELIUM #97 Bk U.S.A. 96* PROMETHIUM #61 Pm U.S.A. Discovery disputed: claims to 1914 95* AMERICIUM #95 Am U.S.A. 94* CURIUM #96 Cm U.S.A. 93* PLUTONIUM #94 Pu U.S.A. 92* NEPTUNIUM #93 Np U.S.A. 91* ASTATINE #85 At U.S.A. 90* FRANCIUM #87 Fr Fr. 89* TECHNETIUM #43 Tc U.S.A. 88 RHENIUM #75 Re Gr. 87 HAFNIUM #72 Hf Netherlands, Hung. 86* PROTACTINIUM #91 Pa Gr., Aust. 85 LUTETIUM #71 Lu Fr. 84* RADON #86 Rn Gr. 83* ACTINIUM #89 Ac Fr. 82* POLONIUM #84 Po Fr. 81* RADIUM #88 Ra Fr. 80 XENON #54 Xe Scot., Eng. 79 KRYPTON #36 Kr Scot., Eng. 78 NEON #10 Ne Scot., Eng. 77 EUROPIUM #63 Eu Fr. 76 HELIUM #2 He Scottish 75 ARGON #18 A Eng-Scot 74 GERMANIUM #32 Ge German 73 DYSPROSIUM #66 Dy French 72 NEODYMIUM #60 Nd Austrian 71 PRASEODYMIUM #59 Pr Austrian 70 GADOLINIUM #64 Gd Swiss 69 SAMARIUM #62 Sm French 68 HOLMIUM #67 Ho Swedish 67 SCANDIUM #21 Sc Swedish 66 THULIUM #69 Tm Swedish 65 YTTERBIUM #70 Yb Swiss 64 GALLIUM #31 Ga French 63 INDIUM #49 In German 62 THALLIUM #81 Tl British 61 RUBIDIUM #37 Rb German 60 CESIUM #55 Cs German 59 RUTHENIUM #44 Ru Russian 58 ERBIUM #68 Er Swedish 57 TERBIUM #65 Tb Swedish 56 LANTHANUM #57 La Swedish 55 VANADIUM #23 V Swedish 54 THORIUM #90 Th Swedish 53 BROMINE #35 Br French 52 ALUMINUM #13 Al Danish 51 SILICON #14 Si Swedish 50 SELENIUM #34 Se Swedish 49 CADMIUM #48 Cd German 48 LITHIUM #3 Li Swedish 47 IODINE #53 I French 46 BORON #5 B French 45 BARIUM #56 Ba English 44 STRONTIUM #38 Sr English 43 CALCIUM #20 Ca English 42 POTASSIUM #19 K English 41 SODIUM #11 Na English 40 MAGNESIUM #12 Mg English 39 IRIDIUM #77 Ir English 38 OSMIUM #76 Os English 37 PALLADIUM #46 Pd English 36 RHODIUM #45 Rh English 35 CERIUM #58 Ce Swedish 34 TANTALUM #73 Ta Swedish 33 COLUMBIUM #41 Cb English 32 CHROMIUM #24 Cr French 31 BERYLLIUM #4 Be French 30 YTTRIUM #39 Y Finnish 29 TITANIUM #22 Ti English 28 ZIRCONIUM #40 Zr German 27 URANIUM #92 U German 26 TUNGSTEN #74 W Spanish 25 TELLURIUM #52 Te Austrian 24 MOLYBDENUM #42 Mo Swedish 23 MANGANESE #12 Mn Swedish 22 CHLORINE #17 Cl Swedish 21 OXYGEN #8 O English 20 NITROGEN #7 N Scottish 19 FLUORINE #9 F Swedish 18 HYDROGEN #1 H English 17 NICKEL #28 Ni Swedish 16 BISMUTH #83 Bi French 15 ZINC #30 Zn German 14 PLATINUM #78 Pt Spanish 13 COBALT #27 Co Swedish 12 PHOSPHORUS #15 P German

5.34 BOYLE LAVOISIER WATT WASHINGTON AVOGADRO MENDELEEFF LINCOLN

5.35 * Radioactive, No stable isotopes

5.36 NOTE: NUMBER BEFORE NAME OF ELEMENT INDICATES ORDER OF DISCOVERY. NUMBER FOLLOWING NAME IS THE ATOMIC NUMBER. LETTERS FOLLOWING ATOMIC NUMBER ARE THEIR SYMBOLS. NATIONALITY LISTING IS THAT OF DISCOVERER.

5.37 CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF KEY INVENTIONS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

5.38 1650 1670 1690 1710 1730 1750 1770 1790 1810 1830 1850 1870 1890 1910 1930 1950 1970 A.D.

5.39 450 1,450 10,000