Dusek’s Word of the Day – DYMAXION - an adjective derived from the words dynamic, maximum, and tension.
Meaning: "the use of technology and resources to maximum advantage with minimal expenditure of energy and material."
In 1929 when Bucky Fuller collaborated with the department store chain Marshall Field’s in Chicago to erect his first Dymaxion house, advertising professional Waldo Warren assisted in coining the word. Inspired by the grain silo, the Dymaxion House was prefabricated and could be efficiently erected & inhabited in only a few days.
Some could rally behind Dymaxia for reasons of fear of global warming & climate change, the conservation of resources, the reduction of pollution, tor any of the myriad threats to the continuing habitation of our spaceship Earth. Others will support the use of technology and resources to maximum advantage with minimal expenditure of energy and material purely because it is the optimal way to run a business profitably, with disregard for the word or its origin.
Regardless - ninety years after the word was coined, the time has arrived for global spaceship Earth's “Dymaxion Age”.
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