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	The Ephemeral Port Range
		Ephemeral ports are temporary ports assigned by a machine's IP stack, and are assigned from a designated range of ports for this purpose.
		When the connection terminates, the ephemeral port is available for reuse, although most IP stacks won't reuse that port number until the entire pool of ephemeral ports have been used.
		Normally, ephemeral (that is, short-lived) ports are allocated between the values of 1024 and 5000 inclusive.
	www.ncftp.com /ncftpd/doc/misc/ephemeral_ports.html (3121 words)

	iamanangelchaser.com > writings > the ephemeralization of educational objectives by the infostructure
		The doctrine of ephemeralization holds that all technologies arise as solutions to various human problems (a definition which would naturally include such "soft" systems as the postal service and, say, mathematics), and that the ongoing advancement of technology leads inexorably to the eventual trivialization, both practical and economic, of these problems.
		Previously, the problems which our evolving technologies ephemeralized were of a primarily physical nature, but when transmission and storage have both fallen by the wayside, the relentless historical process of ephemeralization will set to work on the final stage of the communication cycle--processing.
		As the ephemeralization advances through the remaining objectives of comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis, more and more of the cognitive responsibilities of communication will be assumed by the infostructure, with fewer and fewer left to the human mind.
	www.iamanangelchaser.com /writings/ephemeralization/ephemeralization.html (2834 words)

	Ephemeralization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ephemeralization is a term coined by Buckminster Fuller to refer to the tendency for current technology to be replaced by much smaller, lighter, and more efficient technology.
		Fuller sometimes used the illustration of a compact Telstar satellite, weighing just a few hundred pounds yet functionally replacing some 750,000 tons of transatlantic cable, as an example of this concept.
		Ephemeralization is partly the outcome of multi-functionality, a principle observed in nature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ephemeralization (197 words)

	iamanangelchaser.com > writings > the ephemeralization of educational objectives by the infostructure
		The doctrine of ephemeralization holds that all technologies arise as solutions to various human problems (a definition which would naturally include such "soft" systems as the postal service and, say, mathematics), and that the ongoing advancement of technology leads inexorably to the eventual trivialization, both practical and economic, of these problems.
		Previously, the problems which our evolving technologies ephemeralized were of a primarily physical nature, but when transmission and storage have both fallen by the wayside, the relentless historical process of ephemeralization will set to work on the final stage of the communication cycle--processing.
		As the ephemeralization advances through the remaining objectives of comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis, more and more of the cognitive responsibilities of communication will be assumed by the infostructure, with fewer and fewer left to the human mind.
	iamanangelchaser.com /writings/ephemeralization/ephemeralization.html (2834 words)

	ephemeral - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Lasting for a markedly brief time: "There remain some truths too ephemeral to be captured in the cold pages of a court transcript" (Irving R. Kaufman).
		lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
		ephemeral was Word of the Day on May 4, 2000.
	dictionary.reference.com /search?q=ephemeral (168 words)

	What is Ephemeralization?
		Buckminster Fuller was very fond of the word "ephemeralization", which he used roughly in the sense of "progressively accomplishing more with less".
		The Internet represents a degree of ephemeralization that allows one individual to influence or interact with hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people, with a use of resources that is negligible.
		Energy is probably the most important area to get ephemeralized and put into people's hands.
	www.miqel.com /reading_library/archived_stories/ephemeralization_trend.html (1006 words)

	Ephemeralization -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Epemeralization is in turn partially the outcome of multi-functionality, a principle observed in nature.
		Multi-functionality is a cornerstone concept in ecology, and is a principle explored by Buckminister Fuller's concept of ephemeralization.
		Fuller adapted multi-functionality from "nature's technologies," as we might say, noting that our designs could accomplish more with less - less human and resource expenditures, less waste.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ep/Ephemeralization.htm (59 words)

	Ephemeralization
		Buckminster Fuller was very fond of the word "ephemeralization", which he used roughly in the sense of "progressively accomplishing more with less".
		The Internet represents a degree of ephemeralization that allows one individual to influence or interact with hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people, with a use of resources that is negligible.
		But now, this is the all fine in the area of information, that is ephemeralized now.
	www.mytruebrain.com /ephemeralization.htm (978 words)

	Arcosanti : Experience : Events : Archive : Paolo Soleri's Paradox Paper
		The situation is ephemeralization functioning in the service of hyper-consumption because of the optimal location for the pursuit, the suburban or country home or mansion, the most consumptive icon of our American Dream culture.
		This is an interiorization process, the opposite of the ephemeralization of cyberspace pursued in the hyperconsumption environ, the suburban-exurban developments of the American Dream.
		The paradox in the basic ephemeralization of virtual reality is that such a process is generated by "solitary" minds, between themselves and the machine, the computer.
	www.arcosanti.org /expArcosanti/visit/events/archive/paradox/paradoxpaper.html (4611 words)

	Mailgate: bit.listserv.geodesic: Re: ephemeralization and etherealization (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Recycling and environmental preservation seem important to emphasize and incorporate in our trends and kind of get lost in the simple more-with-less though the latter is important as well.
		I think Doug's right about the necessity for a supporting definition the first time one hears it, but I think there's more hope for ephemeralization referring to more recycling than more-with-lessing since it is more in accordance with the dictionary definition.
		Using ephemeralization to talk about more-with-less just seems daft when one considers the root word ephemeral.
	mailgate.supereva.it /bit/bit.listserv.geodesic/msg00337.html (326 words)

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		I believe that this protean behavior requires the evolution \par of tools and techniques, and calls for the ephemeralization of technology: materials used for transport, communication, or vision becoming smaller and more lightweight, perhaps incorpo\- \par }\pard\plain \keepn\keep\li288\widctlpar\phpg\pvpg\posx878\posy8424\absw5918\absh-912\dxfrtext188\dfrmtxtx188\dfrmtxty201\adjustright \fs20\cgrid {\f1\fs18\expnd0\expndtw4 rated into the body.
		I have often thought that what we are attempting to do through these tech\-nologies, which continue to be complexified, miniaturized and ephemeralized in the way that you are desc ribing, is to arrive at a point where the aborigines already were thousands of years ago.
		I think it is incredibly important that we understand the existence of such phenomena even at the level of some\-thing as supposed ly primitive as a small water beetle.
	www.vasulka.org /archive/4-20b/THE(2001).rtf (2229 words)

	ephemeralization.htm (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One concept he developed was the notion of "ephemeralization".
		He noted that the human species, being clever, was learning to do more and more with less and less, such that tools became smaller and less "substantial" (that is, ephemeral).
		Extrapolate these trends and estimate what will be the size and capacity of a $1000 computer by the time today's kindergarteners reach middle school.
	www.msu.edu /~pdickson/themes/ephemeralization.htm (81 words)

	Ephemeral Sun Website
		Ephemeral Sun with fellow local proggers Encompass at Orion Sound Studios on October 13th 2007.
		The free event, to be held April 13—May 20, will feature nearly 90,000 square feet of paintings, sculptures, photography and other creative work (Ephemeral Sun).
		Ephemeral Sun will be doing a couple of Instuphemeral Sun sets on April 21st and May 4th.
	www.ephemeralsun.com (145 words)

	Fog Gun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was found that a one-hour massaging pressure bath with the Fog Gun used only 1 pint of water.
		As there were no run-off waters, bathing could be done in the bedroom, thus eliminating tons of plumbing (see Ephemeralization).
		By using the Fog Gun in front of a heat lamp, one could combine the sanitary and muscle-relaxing effects of other types of bathing.
	www.nous.org.uk /fog.html (179 words)

	Ownership (Site not responding. Last check: )
		>"Ephemeralization, which constantly does more with visibly less - as does, >for instance, the one-quarter-ton communications satellite outperform >150,000 tons of transoceanic cables - has not as yet been formally >isolated, recognized, and discussed in print as such by any economists.
		>Until economists recognize it ephemeralization cannot be popularly >comprehended and be adopted in public policy formulations.
		Ephemeralization sounds an awful lot like productiveness, does it not.
	cog.kent.edu /archives/ownership/msg01731.html (505 words)

	Mailgate: bit.listserv.geodesic: ephemeralization and etherealization (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I think Bucky's word "ephemeralization" could be usefully applied to another needed trend that I've heard him talk about, that of increasing recycling and turnover of artifacts.
		It seems human society is only going to head in this direction in a short-sighted "emergence by emergency" fashion as the cell-phone and computer carcasses and their poisonous remains pile up and spoil the environment especially in the United States with so much unspoiled remaining environment though this short-sightedness is shrinking that rapidly.
		These physicists certainly didn't coin the word ether so it seems too much to say the word is "founded" on their conceptualizing.
	mailgate.supereva.it /bit/bit.listserv.geodesic/msg00336.html (352 words)

	1.0, Open Source, and other ponderables - Afterword
		Ceridwan is mentioned once more, but in a context where nothing is said about ephemeralization though you c'n feel Bucky's presence because the context is the "inverse commons" and his wealth-concept shows up because the grass grows longer when grazed (reuse).
		Presumably, her conjuring is the open source method...but he doesn't tie that in, leaves his metaphoric loose ends flapping.
		We've been set up to think ephemeralization might be at least an aspect of the magical forces heating and stirring the pot.
	home.earthlink.net /~acorioso/hackers4.htm (3149 words)

	Instrumental Architecture
		Although not fully understood or appreciated to this day, through synergetic geometry, Fuller attempted to introduce a paradigmatic shift in which form and matter could be related to for their dynamic characteristics of energy, motion and pattern.
		By introducing the energy characteristics of music, frequency and ephemerality to his exercises in design, Fuller was able to demonstrate larger, stronger, weightless architectures that did not depend solely on the strength of the materials to determine their overall strength.
		Shelter could become, in its most globally applicable form, a type of "music" or instrument of ephemerality -- an almost transparent, transcendent form of form that could be played in myriad ways by a myriad of humans.
	members.cruzio.com /~devarco/instrument.htm (3438 words)

	Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Ephemeralization against the bureaucracy
		Of course the most dramatic example of this is the microchip, and the huge number of ways computer-mediated communications increasingly substitute for pushing around matter and energy — but the phenomenon is everywhere.
		Modern life is so saturated with ephemeralization that we hardly notice it any more.
		As we learn how to ephemeralize more and more of our technology, we downsize and decentralize it because that’s the cheap and effective way to go.
	esr.ibiblio.org /?p=262 (3326 words)

	MIND Exchange
		I suggest that this is a moving target and that it increases as a function of technological "ephemeralization" as Bucky Fuller called it.
		Optimum enegry flow, yes, and ultimately that may be beyond the control of the organism (being the energy flow of the planetary system itself) but if an organism learns how to endlessly increase his ability to use such a finite flow (i.e.
		I certainly think so simply because ultimately the human trajectory can begin to feed on more ephemeral sources of energy such as those currents that feed the earth, the sun and then the galaxy...
	www.kurzweilai.net /mindx/show_thread.php?rootID=45558 (6527 words)

	New Civilization Foundation Overview ENERGY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ample attention will be given to ephemeralization ("doing more with less"), the "Right Use of Energy" (conservation, efficiency, and selectivity as to energy usage), and adherence to comprehensive design in the development of each and every technology.
		7.10.8 The NCF is also dedicated to promoting a comprehensive design criteria in the various stages of a technology's development (leading to ephemeralization), and -- where appropriate -- bypassing old axioms such as economics which might otherwise dictate the late or premature timing of introducing new energy devices and concepts.
		NCF expects to be involved with the research and development of such devices in a material and strongly interactive way, but simultaneously, maintaining the integrity of the Right Use of Energy and Ephemeralization.
	www.newciv.org /ncn/ncf/ncf17.html (953 words)

	The Mac Observer: The Apple Trader - What Time Is It?
		But it's the " ephemeralization" of the economy that is the most important uber-trend for the future of the Earth.
		Ephemeralization began last century as design innovations in every science led inexorably towards the use of less metal, plastics and fuel to get improved vehicles, housing, computers or whatever.
		Ephemeralization means the limited natural resources and environment can be stretched further without breaking down.
	www.macobserver.com /columns/appletrader/00/000606.shtml (1904 words)

	Workers of the world, unite and STOP WORKING!
		Ephemeralization: one Telstar - weighing only 500 pounds - out performing 75.000 tons of transocean copper cable.
		Ephemeralization has flourished in different systems, for it is independent of political ideology.
		Automation, initialed by the mass production of electronics, has generated an awareness of the signifigance of ephemeralization.
	internetlovefest.com /work/haynes_two.html (4268 words)

	Notes from August 1 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some decades ago, R. Buckminster Fuller (Bucky to his friends) believed one key to the solution of humanity's problems was what he called ephemeralization.
		By that he meant things (real, physical objects) would get smaller, and hence cheaper to the point where their costs would become negligible.
		Truly, this is a paradigm of ephemeralization that Bucky would love.
	home.att.net /~leefrank/newnotes/aug01_05.html (2589 words)

	Jim's Pond - Exploring the Universe of Ideas
		The Ephemeralization Process To be ephemeral is to be short-lived.
		The ephemeralization process it to shorten the time it takes to do something.
		Also, to ephemeralize it to make something more valuable.
	radio.weblogs.com /0117808/2003/02/12.html (754 words)

	ProgressiveResourceCatalog \| SelectOverview / History3
		Buckminster Fuller was arguably among the most original thinkers of this or any other age.
		Deploring waste, he explored and advocated a principle that he termed "ephemeralization" - which in essence (according to Stewart Brand) Fuller coined to mean "doing more with less." Wealth can be increased by recycling resources into newer, higher value products whose more technically sophisticated design requires less material.
		In practice, it has often meant miniaturization, for example, as when table-model calculating machines were succeeded over time by smaller ones, until the calculator of today fits in one's hand.
	www.progressiveresourcecatalog.org /index.php/SelectOverview/History3 (315 words)

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		The fast-paced change of the technology industry leads to a feeling of "ephemeralization," as Buckminster Fuller called it 30 years ago, meaning a career in high tech can have relatively few benchmarks of tangible accomplishment.
		And these feelings are only temporarily masked by frenzied personal schedules and trivial and ephemeral obsessions with pop entertainment culture, things that wear thin as people mature.
		Gary Chapman is director of the 21st Century Project at the University of Texas at Austin.
	www.prenhall.com /divisions/bp/app/wells2/cw/careers/careers_adv09.doc (885 words)

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		Symbiotic Ephemeralization - *Context There is a substantial legacy of thinking around the strategic management of people.
		Symbiotic Ephemeralization - *Status Quo The issues of how power is used in a large organisation and the social implications of micro-environmental variables are demonstrably minor targets despite dominant popular views to the contrary.
		Symbiotic Ephemeralization — Implementation Symbiotic Ephemeralization, in the context of this paper, refers to a series of autonomous communities-of-practice that though nodal collaboration channels produce a unique ephemeralization* hypercycle.
	www.ipresources.com /symeph/symeph_d.doc (4041 words)

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