Trends and Transformation Charts: These depict the total history of all the metallurgical, chemical, electromagnetic, structural, and mechanical trendings to greater performance per given amounts of given materials, time, and energy. (Location 95)
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you have to decide at the outset whether you are trying to make money or to make sense, as they are mutually exclusive. (Location 122)
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Because of these lags, the earlier I could introduce the conception model, the earlier its birth could take place. I assumed that the birth into everyday life of the livingry artifacts whose working conceptual prototypes I was producing would be governed by those respective-category gestation lags. (Location 129)
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Fortune described clearly what had happened, but Fortune’s writers were completely unschooled in dealing with that which had not yet happened. (Location 140)
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A group of prominent industrialists led by one of my young fans had incorporated “General Houses,” and that was all it took to get Fortune excited. (Location 143)
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But evolution’s inauguration of the “livingry” industry had to wait until capitalism had graduated, from its for-centuries-held assumption that physical land property constituted capitalism itself, to the startling realization that the strictly metaphysical, technological “know-how” had become the most profitable property as the key to exploitation of the invisible industries of chemistry, metallurgy, electromagnetics, and atomics. (Location 160)
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Evolution was clearly intent on postponing the inception of the livingry service industry until humanity had graduated from its pre-twentieth century condition as a planet of remote nations to an integrated global society, (Location 169)
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We may soon be atom-bombed into extinction by the preemptive folly of the political puppet administrators fronting for the exclusively-for-money-making, supranational corporations’ weaponry industry of the now hopelessly bankrupt greatest-weapons-manufacturing nation (the U.S.A.). (Location 217)
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