This first picture (Figure 1) is what I call the Profile of the Industrial Revolution. I found that revolution best portrayed by the chronological rate of humanity's acquisition of the scientific controls over the basic inventory of Cosmic Absolutes-i.e., the 92 regenerative chemical elements.

It is a curve of acceleration reliably portraying the fundamental rate of impingement of science and technology upon man, as referenced to regular calendar clock time. Lists of historical inventions and discoveries are formless because they are inherently open-ended, ie, infinite. How. ever, there is one and only one closed or finite family of pure scientific events. It is the history of the isolation man of the 92 regenerative chemical elements. Membership in this family of prime universe patternings requires a family credit card" identification by specific and uniquely consecutive matching electron-proton numbers. No two members may have the same numbers. There must be a family member for each consecutive number. The family must consist of all 92 unique sets from 1 to 92 electron-proton counts, and no others. That is the curve herewith presented. To it has been added the curve of the rate of isolation of the, thus far, subsequently isolated, non-self-regenerative chemical elements beyond 92. The rate and order of acquisition of the elements of negative universe, numbered beyond the first 92, are shown for comparison only.

The chart covers 800 years. It runs from A.D. 1200 to A.D. 2000. Nine chemical elements (see list at lower left corner of chart) were already known to and isolated by man when recorded history dawned. The first known isolation of a chemical element was that of arsenic in 1200 A.D. in Italy. There is a 200-year lag to the next isolation - antimony - then another 200-year interval to phosphorus, then only a half-century gap to cobalt, whereafter, the list takes "off" averaging a climbing rate of one isolation every two years.

The swiftly rising curve is not smooth, however. There are three distinct slow-down "shoulders." These are occasioned by periods of universal warring. Pure science activity, which these isolations represent most truly is frustrated altogether by the atmos

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phere of war. Because the earlier dis

coveries of science are often converted to technological advantage in wartime,. science has been thought, erroneously, to prosper in wartime. What prospers in hot and cold war times is applied science and production technology but not pure science, not basic thinking.

It is seen on this chart that 1932, popularly identified as the "depth of the depression," is, in fact, a moment of epochal success. In 1932 the last of the finite family of 92 regenerative chemical elements-occurring spontaneously in nature-was isolated. For the first time in known history man had in neat "know-how cans" on the "shelf" all the basic ingredients for reassembling the physical universe's basic pattern behaviors in preferred arrangements such as in metalic alloys or organic compounds. This permits greatly increased end performances per units of humanity's discovered, controlled and invested energies. It makes "possible" theretofore undreamed-of physical advantage gains to be realized for all of humanity. It is the beginning of man's consciously successful participation in the evolutionary events of nature. This conscious and scientific participation, in turn, leads swiftly to realization of physical, metabolic success of man in universe.

After 1932 and the 92nd isolation, there is an important, but temporary, slow-down in further isolations. Scientific man became momentarily preoccupied in taking apart the nuclei of those fundamental chemical elements. Fission and the theoretical release of the elemental energy 5 years later, and realistic release 12 years later, was inevitable to that 92 and final isolation of the full family of prime elements in 1932.

It is interesting to note that the post-uranium element isolations, starting with 93, occur with extraordinary regularity. Witness the approximately straight line ascent of the post-92 isolations as well as the direct correspondence of the elemental numbers with the numbers representing the successive order of isolations. This correspondence is unlike the discovery pattern theretofore occurring. For instance, isolation number 97 is berkelium-element number 97-with 97 electrons and 97 protons.

In the first 92 isolations, however, the order of isolation does not correspond to the atomic number order. The 28th isolation was zirconiumelement number 40; the 31st isolation, beryllium was element number 14, the 18th isolation was hydrogen, which was element number 1, meaning 1 electron, and 1 proton, and so forth. None of the atomic numbers corre spond to the number in order of suc cessive isolation within the "first family" of 92 elements.

The extraordinary pattern disclosed by this curve of man's acquisition of fundamental controls over the basic energy patternings of nature portrays only the evolutionary rate of development of pure science. It is subjective in that it establishes only a potential use-advantage for man. Without discovered use or technical capability to use having been as yet invented by man, this pure knowledge remains only potential.

In view of this curve of development of the high fundamental poten tial, it is appropriate to ask ourselves: "What is the most comprehensive change in the relationship of man to his Earth and his universe that may be realized physically by the appli cation of this pure (physical) knowl edge?"

Probably the most significant consequence of the application of this knowledge is man's alteration thereby of his ecological patterning in uni

verse.

Amongst all the species of life on earth, none of them, other than man, has consciously participated in the fundamental alteration of their overall, lifetime, ecological sweep-out patterning. Eels, plovers, and many other biological species unconsciously were forced to alter their total lifetimes' cumulative ecological patterning-by the comprehensive earth surface changes induced by the successive ice ages. As ice receded, cold-area-breeding types of life were forced to everlarger annual migrations between the most favorable tropical feeding grounds and arctic breeding grounds, respectively. This was unconscious participation in the fundamental alteration of ecological patterns. The designing and building of a hydroclec tric dam or development and pro

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duction of an antibiotic constitutes conscious participation by man in the evolutionary pattern transforming of

universe.

Up to, and including, my own father's generation, men were limited essentially to motion accomplished almost exclusively by their own leg motion-mildly increased by horse and vehicular travel. In 1914, American man was averaging 1640 miles per year total travel. Thirteen hundred miles were accomplished by his (integral) legs, and 340 additional miles were accomplished by his (non-integral) "vehicles." This vehicular augmentation was a motion increase of only 25% over his legs-realized motion. As a consequence of mass production of the equipment of mobilization during World War I, in 1919, United States of America, man covered 1600 miles by vehicle alone-in addition to his continued 1300 miles per year walking-a total of 2900 miles per man. By 1942 U.S.A. man was averaging 4500 miles per year by vehicles plus 1300 miles per year by legs or an annual total ecological sweepout of 5500 miles per year.

In view of the "life expectancy tables" we find that the total miles of an average human's lifetime mileage, to-and-froing, ecological "sweepout," up to and including my father's lifetime, was only 30,000 miles. However, at 69 years of age, I have already covered three million miles which is one-hundred-fold the lifetime distance accomplished by humans of any previous generations. I am one of a class of several million human beings, who, in their lifetimes, have each covered three million miles or more. The class of senior airline pilots has covered severalfold my three-million-mile "sweep-out." Astronauts equal my three-million-mile "sweep-out" every one hundred circuits of the earth, i.e., in approximately every four days of Earth orbiting. All these dramatic alterations of the ecological pattern of man, as shown on the chart have accrued directly to the inventory of Cosmic Absolutes-"canned" and put on the "potential use shelf" by pure scientists, working like bees to store the "honey" utterly unaware of the value to man of that honey or of what man will do with it.

To realize ecological pattern transformation requires that man penetrate environments theretofore intolerably hostile to his naked existence. His invention of hats and clothing first permitted man to penetrate hot and cold regions theretofore intolerable to him. Clothing represented man's first environment-controlling and ecology-transforming tool. When

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man built himself a house making possible his existence during external development of hostile conditions, it did not alter, however, his ecological pattemning geographically-anymore than did his retreat into a cave. To make fundamental alteration of his ecological sweep-out, man must propel his harm-immunizing, controlled environment into geographical realms of previously intolerable environmental conditions. He must propel the environment-controlling device by his control of power systems external to, and greater than, his bodily power system.

In order to maintain a uniform measure of the magnitude of effectiveness of such (previously intolerable) hostile environment penetrations by man, I have documented man's circumnavigations of the earth-inside his succession of improved environmentcontrolling machines, as propelled by energy patterns, which, though indirectly controlled by man, are nonetheless external to and greater than his integral, metabolic energy-conversion, propulsion capabilities.

As shown by little symbolic pictures along the top area of the chart, the first such circumnavigation of Earth by man was accomplished within the wooden sailing ship, which took approximately three years. About 350 years later man circumnavigated Earth in a steel steamship, taking approximately three weeks. Seventy-five years later he circumnavigated the earth in an aluminum airplane, taking approxi mately three days total flying time. Thirty-five years later he circumnavigated Earth in an exotic metal structured, rocket capsule, taking a little over an hour for each orbit cycle.

We have in the decreasing intervals between the progressive modes of circumnavigation as well as in the contractions of the successive elapsed times for the circumnavigations both a second and third power acceleration of the original velocity rate of pure science growth as demonstrated by the prime family of 92 chemical element isolations. To be realistic we must now

multiply this third power acceleration by a fourth coefficient. The fourth coefficient is the conceptual regeneration induced in the human mind by the concomitant visual information circumnavigation of Earth now being accomplished by the team of Telstar satel lites whose world-around relayings of the electromagnetic wave-borne TV communications will result in a fourdimensional acceleration of man's teleologic and conscious participation in universal evolution.

The extraordinary fourth power acceleration thus to be realized by man in the distribution of technology

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generating information, through computers-electronics in general-and the world-around information relay, will integrate the total acceleration of the rate of human ecology transformation to a fifth power progression. Within ten years anything reasonably "thinkupable" by science fiction will probably have been realized.

I know of no device as effective as this chart to generate comprehension of the unprecedented rate of experience acceleration into which man has now entered.

Along the bottom of the chart the numbers 150, 450, 1450, and 10,000 occur in approximation of the cumulative number of key science and technology inventions realized by all men, everywhere, up to the historical dates at which those numbers are posted. I have not yet made accurate check of the 1964 historically cumulative number of inventions, but it is in the magnitude of millions. It can only be measured effectively at a later date.

Just go ten years to the right of the first man orbiting of Earth in 1961, and you may safely say that by 1971 anything dreamable can happen. When I stand up here for instance and talk about changing obsolete, ineffective and debilitating school pattems, the established reflexive conditioning of our brains tends to expect that it would take another 100 years to bring about that change. But the rate at which information is being disseminated, integrated, and inhibited into our current decision making regarding the subjects I am discussing comprehensively discloses that my discourse constitutes subconsciously the general atmosphere of our thinking. The changes indicated as desir able are going to happen very, very rapidly. And I would say to you as educators, thinking about what you