http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/make-it-obsolete
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller
Fuller was, among many other interests, a systems theorist. When he said you have to make parts of a system obsolete to change anything he was talking about social change, and perhaps market changes.
You can’t just kill the Big Four record companies by beating them at their own, rigged game. If you want to replace them, you have to invent file sharing.
But this insight doesn’t only apply to society or markets. You are a “system” too.
http://www.davidmcelroy.org/?p=18991
Fuller saw different ways of designing and engineering buildings, among other things. He didn’t try to convince architects and engineers that their conventional designs were wrong. He didn’t care about fighting them. He simply went about the work of inventing what he saw in his mind’s eye. He was very conscious of this approach.
Most people would have either given in and joined in doing things the way everybody else did them or spent years bitterly trying to fight a system that didn’t show any appreciation for the genius his ideas offered.
You never change something by fighting the existing reality,” Fuller said. “To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
https://www.bfi.org/challenge/about
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller
Fuller was, among many other interests, a systems theorist. When he said you have to make parts of a system obsolete to change anything he was talking about social change, and perhaps market changes.
You can’t just kill the Big Four record companies by beating them at their own, rigged game. If you want to replace them, you have to invent file sharing.
But this insight doesn’t only apply to society or markets. You are a “system” too.
http://www.davidmcelroy.org/?p=18991
Fuller saw different ways of designing and engineering buildings, among other things. He didn’t try to convince architects and engineers that their conventional designs were wrong. He didn’t care about fighting them. He simply went about the work of inventing what he saw in his mind’s eye. He was very conscious of this approach.
Most people would have either given in and joined in doing things the way everybody else did them or spent years bitterly trying to fight a system that didn’t show any appreciation for the genius his ideas offered.
You never change something by fighting the existing reality,” Fuller said. “To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
https://www.bfi.org/challenge/about
