Synergetics

Description

Synergetics' is a concept and book by Buckminster Fuller, referring to the concept of either the output of a system not foreseen by the simple sum of the output of each system's part. A 'synergy' can also be defined as 'all sides contribute, and all sides win and recieve the collective output of all contributing". Such a concept we can see being active in human interaction like Co-intelligence, or even obvious applications like a wiki itself. To provide a formal basis to this idea of Synergy, Buckminster fuller created a whole new geometrical system, the "synergetics". Contrary to classic euclidian geometry, synergetics deals with aspects such as strength, stability of forms, and is therefore especially adapted to applied geometry, such as architecture, or ti understand the way nature uses forms. For instance, the triangle is a stabler structure than the square: create a triangle py putting together three rods in iron; try to "destroy" a triangle by pushing one of its sides: it is almost impossible. Now,do a square with four rods. Push one of the side. the square almost immediatelyy collapse. the only way to make a square stable is to trinagulate it: using a diagonal to create to triangles. This examples shows that some forms have a better "synergy" than others. From this knowledge, one may create new technological devices. For instance, the geodesic dome, the architectural structure for which fuller is famous, use the synergy of the triangles to become much more stable, for less material, than classica