# Ephemeralization **Domain:** Design Science / Resource Systems **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Buckminster Fuller]], [[Resource Optimization]], [[Substrate Transition]], [[Infrastructure as Power]] --- ## Definition **Ephemeralization** is Buckminster Fuller's term for the tendency to accomplish more performance with less material, energy, time or weight. ## Corpus Context The principle connects [[Design Science]] to computation and dematerialized infrastructure. In [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]], it helps explain the movement from vehicle and furniture to signal, replica and informational presence. Efficiency alone does not settle who controls the lighter system. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[Buckminster Fuller]], [[Resource Optimization]], [[Substrate Transition]], [[Infrastructure as Power]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]