Index
1 Accounting.
See Economic accounting
2 Anticipatory design science, 22
3 Anti-entropy, 101--102 See also Entropy
4 Areas. See Topology
5 Astronauts: all humans as, 56
6 Atomic energy, 129.
See also Energy Automation: of human
biological processes, 54; and loss of jobs,
124
7 Automobiles: ownership of, 134
8 Bank wealth, 89
9 Behavioral sciences: in educational process, 26
10 Brain: as coordinating switchboard, 25; difference between mind and, 101; imitated by computer, 118
11 British Empire and the great pirates, 37--38
12 Categoryitis, 31
13 Children: as comprehensivists, 25--26 Circle. See Great circle Comprehension: defined, 77 Comprehensivity of Great Pirates, 34--35; Great Pirates abandoning their, 50--51; man forced to reestablish, 53
14 Computers: provide new impersonal problem solutions, 45; as superspecialist, 53; strategy combined with general systems theory and synergetics, 93--94; as imitation of human brain, 118; beginning of, 122; resolving ideological
15 dogmas, 138
16 Craftsmen: early specialized, 29; tools of, 122; in the industrial economy, 123
17 Cross-breeding: of world man, 131
18 Cybernetics: defined, 95
19 Darwin, Charles: theory of animate evolution, 47
20 Da Vinci, Leonardo, 35--36
21 Democracy, 92--93
22 Design: capability of early world men, 28--29; of spaceship Earth’s internal support systems, 59--60; of universal evolution, 111--112; revolution in, 134
23 Design science: anticipatory, governing yesterday’s naval mastery, 22
24 Divide and conquer: grand strategy of, 39
25 E = MC2, 69, 96. See also Energy
26 Economic accounting: by great pirates, 94--95; synergy in, 103; need for realistic, 112
27 Educational task: to allow physical and metaphysical success, 130
28 Einstein, Albert: formula E = MC2, 45, 69, 96; definition of physical universe, 70; reassess universe, 97
29 Electromagnetic spectrum: great pirates’ first use of, 43--44; effecting human evolution, 110 Energy: impounding of sun’s radiant, 58, 59, 93; generalized law of, 73; savings as fossil fuels, 94, 129; in synergetics, 95; finite, 96; harnessing of, 129; atomic exploitation of, 129
30 Entropy: energy systems eventually run down, 46; assumed universe subject to, 96; wealth as antientropy, 101
31 Environment: early society inability to cope with, 26; evolution synergeticaily produced, 103--104; changes in physical, 110
32 Euler, Leonhard, 81
33 Evolution: success of human dependent on mastering metaphysical, 46; design and patterns in, 49, 54, 111--112; man’s feeling about, 53--54; inexorable, 55; our present position in, 65--66; effected by electromagnetic spectrum, 110; comprehending phases of, 127
34 Experiences: to extract generalized principles, 62; is finite, 70
35 Exploitation: of atomic energy, 129; of fossil fuels, 129. See also Energy
36 Extinction, 48
37 Failures: humanity’s, 24--25 Fellowships, 125
38 Forecasting, 22
39 Fossil fuel: energy savings account, 94, 128; expending of, 129. See also Energy
40 Generalized principles: minds discovering, 21; extracted from human experience, 61--62; first was leverage, 63; surviving with, 118; inventively employed only through mind, 127
41 Genera! systems theory: as tool of high intellectual advantage, 67, 70--71; combined with computer strategy and synergetics, 95
42 Geodesic lines, 76
43 GI Bill, 115
44 Gold: demand system inadequate, 88--98; used by Great Pirates for trading, 90
45 Grand strategy: divide and conquer, 39; organizing our, 65.
46 See also Strategy
47 Great circle: defined, 76
48 Great Pirates: as sea mastering people, 34; feared bright people, 35; use of logistics by, 37; and British Empire, 37--38; use of local strong man as king by, 39; tutoring of bright specialists by, 40; in world competition, 41, 43; becoming extinct, 44, 50; rules of accounting still used, 45
49 Gross national product: estimate for 1970, 108--109
50 Growth: physical and metaphysical, 61
51 ‘‘Have-nots’’ struggle with ‘‘haves’’ produces war, 87
52 ‘‘Haves’’: struggle with ‘‘have-nots’’ produces war, 87
53 Heisenberg, Werner: principle of indeterminism, 72
54 Human beings, as astronauts, 56; will be free, 111; employing real wealth, 124; characteristics in Mexico, 132. See also Man
55 Humanity: exists in poverty, 23--24; on Earth’s surface, 27; extinction of, 49; place in evolution of, 66; function of, in universe, 83--84; and standard of living of, 102--103
56 Ideologies: political, 48; resolving dangerous dogmas of, 138
57 Indeterminism: Heisenberg’s principle of, 72
58 India: population problems in, 113 Industrialization: demonstration of world, 104
59 Industry: tooling of, 22, 116, 122, 133; production increased by world wars, 116; craftsmen in the economy, 123. See also Tools
60 Information: multiplies wealth, 104--105 Initiative, 45
61 Intellect: as humans’ supreme faculty, 60--61; frees man of special case superstition, 63; use of as man’s function in universe, 99
62 International Monetary Fund: 1967 deliberations of, 88
63 Invention, 134
64 Inventory: of variables in problem solving, 67--68
65 Jobs: loss of in automation, 124
66 King: as great pirate’s local strong man, 39, 40
67 Law of conservation of energy: defined, 98. See also Energy
68 Learning: always increases, 99; man’s past, 131; industrial retooling revolution, 133
69 Lesser circle: defined, 76
70 Leverage: first generalized principle, 63. See also Generalized principles
71 Life: as synergetic, 79--80; hypothetical development of support systems in, 107--108
72 Lincoln, Abraham, 45--46
73 Lines, 81. See also Topology
74 Machine: spaceship Earth as, 59--60 Macrocosm: as universe outside the system, 70
75 Malthus, Thomas, 47
76 Man: utterly helpless as newborn, 61;
77 as adaptable organism, 118--119.
78 See also Human beings
79 Mass production: and mass consumption, 123
80 Mathematics: improved by advent of zero, 36. See also Topology
81 Metals: not destroyed in war, 117 Metaphysical: initiative confused between religion and politics, 45; masters the physical, 46; experiences not included in physical universe, 68; defies ‘‘closed systems’’ analysis, 69; in synergetics, 95; need for, in educational task, 130
82 Mexico: human characteristics in, 132 Michelangelo, 35--36
83 Microcosm: universe inside the system, 70
84 Mind: comprehends general principles, 24, 127, 128; difference between brain and, 101; fellowships of, 125
85 Money: as bank wealth, 89.
86 See also Wealth
87 Moon gravity: as income wealth, 94 More-with-less: and generalized principles of, 63
88 Myth: of wealth as money, 114;
89 of population explosion, 136 Natural laws: and Great Pirates, 34.
90 See also Generalized principles Navies: and Great Pirates, 38 Negatives: yesterday’s, realized, 24 North America: early crossbreeding men in, 131
91 Photosynthesis: impounds sun’s energy, 59
92 Pirates. See Great Pirates
93 Planck, Max, 97
94 Planners: more comprehensive than other professions, 67
95 Points. See Topology
96 Politicians: local, asked to make world work, 51.
97 See also Ideologies
98 Pollution: as survival problem, 85 ‘‘Poluto’’: as new name for planet, 85 Population: problems in India, 113;
99 explosion in as myth, 136 Poverty: humanity existing in, 23--24 Principles. See Generalized principles Problem solving: by yesterday’s
100 contrivings, 21
101 Resources: of Earth unevenly distributed, 29; no longer integratable, 52; unique materials made ‘‘on order,’’ 106
102 Revolution: design and invention, 134
103 Safety factor: in man’s evolution, 111--112
104 Schools: beginning of, 41.
105 See also Specialization; Strategy Second law of thermodynamics, 46 Senses: Great Pirates relying on, 43 Ships: logistics for production and maintenance, 37. See also Vessels
106 Slavery: of specialist expert, 41; human, 107
107 Sovereignties: claim on humans in, 37--38; categoryitis in, 31
108 Spaceship Earth: present condition of, 121
109 Specialist: computer as super, 53 Specialization: society operates on theory of, 25; early leaders who developed, 26, 30, 33; intellectual beginning of schools, 41--42; specialist as slave, 41; over causing extinction, 48, 49; scientific, applied toward weaponry, 52--53
110 Speed of light: discovery of, 97 Spending: regarding energy is obsolete, 98
111 Spoken word: as first industrial tool, 122
112 Strategy: secret and anticipatory, of Great Pirates, 35; comprehensive of naval war colleges, 37
113 Structures: industrial tool enclosing, 116--117
114 Students: comprehend elimination of war, 134
115 Sun: radiation as income wealth, 58, 94. See also Energy
116 Survival: physical and metaphysical, 61; potentials increased by intellect, 63
117 Sword: powerful men of, 26.
See also Great Pirates
118 Synergetics. See Synergy
119 Synergy: defined, 78, 95; defines universal evolution, 79; combined with computer strategy and general systems theory, 95; wealth develops interest through, 102; in economic accounting, 103; in humanity escaping from local identity, 106
120 System: universe as biggest, 68; thought is, 72; first subdivision of universe, 71, 83;
121 variables in evolution, 83
122 Technologies: as substitute after war, 117
123 Telford, Thomas: as Great Pirates’ specialist, 37
124 Thinking: long-distance future of, 22; in terms of whole, 67; as a system, 72; dismissal of irrelevancy in, 76--77; tackling problems with, 83; humans free to, 126.
125 See also Intellect; Mind
126 Time: as relative, 135
127 Tools: industrial, 116; externalizations of integral functions, 117; craft and industrial extinctions, 122; spoken word, 122
128 Topology: mathematics of comprehension, 77; discovered by Euler, 81; patterns of lines, points and areas, 80--81. See also Geodesic lines; Great circle; Lesser circle
129 Underlying order in randomness, 74--75 Universe: as biggest system, 68, 96; physical defined by scientists, 68--69, 70, 72, 97; subdivision, 71; generalized law of energy conservation in, 73; defined by synergy, 79; humanity’s function in, 83, 112
130 Van Allen belts, 58
131 Variables: inventorying of and
problem solving in, 67
132 Vectorial geometry: mathematics
of comprehension, 75--80
133 Vessels: use of, in venturing, 28
134 War: beginning of the great class, 47--48, 87; as age-old lethal formula of ignorant men, 52; as taking priority over real problems, 87; students comprehend elimination of, 134
135 Water: desalinization of, as problem solution, 85--86. Pollution
136 Wealth: generated by integrating resources, 29; as a safety factor, 61; defined, 88, 93; irreversible in evolutionary processes, 91; society’s real, 91, 94,124; income is sun radiation and moon gravity, 94; as anti-entropy, 101; can only increase, 101,105; common, of humanity, 105; of the U.S., 108; of know-how produced by GI Bill. 115
137 Weaponry: scientific specialization applied toward, 52
138 Wholes: thinking in terms of, 67; systems in synergy, 78. See also Systems
139 World: and first seafarers, 28; sea ventures thought in terms of, 30; asking local politicians to make it work, 51; defined, 104, 119; veterans returning from World War II, 115; increase industrial production in, 115--116; cross-breeding in, 131-132