RE: MEST

From: Jef Allbright (jef@jefallbright.net)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2007 - 12:12:04 MST


In my conversations with John we tend to use Buckminster Fuller's term
ephemeralization.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization
 
but the term seems a bit...ephemeral.
 
- Jef

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        From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org] On Behalf Of
micah glasser
        Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:47 AM
        To: sl4@sl4.org
        Subject: Re: MEST
        
        
        I see your point Damien. I was merely using the acronym in the
same manner as John Smart (I like how he thinks). However the concept
and the acronym are useful. I say we wrest it a way from them. The new
acronym will be STEM compression.
        
        
        On 1/8/07, Damien Broderick < thespike@satx.rr.com
<mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com> > wrote:

                At 02:51 AM 1/8/2007 -0500, micah wrote:
                
>Its true. Because of the principle of MEST compression
                
                Ekk. This acronym is toxic, being (I hope) badly
misleading in any
                context advocated on this list:
                
                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEST_(Scientology)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEST_%28Scientology%29>
                
                Presumably you're adopting John Smart's use of the term,
and not the
                name of the punk band, but I really hope it can be
quietly ushered
                out of existence. Scientology terminology is *not* a
good look in
                this context (or indeed in any).
                
                Damien Broderick
                
                

        --
        A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
        R. Buckminster Fuller



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