oder als man anfing über die "ökonomie der stetigkeit" nachzudenken. ef schumacher, august 16th, 1911 — Sept 4th, 1977

... wir brauche verfahren und anlagen, die - so billig sind, dass sie für jeden erschwinglich, - für eine anwendung im kleinen rahmen verwendbar und - mit dem bedürfnis der menschen nach schöpferischem tun vereinbar sind | e.f. schumacher, a study of economics as if people mattered, 1973

today tech people would associate the word small with nano first. physicist are reading since 1959 feynman's script "there is plenty of room at the bottom".

so, how to combine this?

the ideal solution to any design problem is to achieve "the most with the least" or, to use george k. zipf's happy phrase, to employ "the principle of least effort". | victor papanek, design for the real world

one combining phrase in these books. "since world war II" ...

nothing wrong with that, but if it ends up solely in circular argumentations, it might be a good reason to sit down and to consider similarities between the generation's favorit methods and applications instead, and where they lead to.

" ... sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant conclusions." | wassily leontief: "theoretical assumptions and unobserved facts", american economic review, 1971

a kind of incestous validation, (which) has served as insulation from the socially important aspects of problems and has condoned flagrant distortion of them | ida russakoff hoos: systems analysis in public policy - a critique, 1983.

same source:

"deception is easily practiced from false recipes intended to simulate useful findings. | david f. hendry, "econometrics - alchemy or science?", economica, vol 47, no 188, november, 1980, p 390

maybe one of the cloudy marketeers should take a look at cloudspace to find out that their branding has a lot more facets to it as this pastel colored and white paper clouds, so often still in use for presentations.

still in love with a cloudy free sky. - - or the luxury to have a set up which nowadays one would be called private cloud.