Why this word is great
EPHEMERALIZATION — [Noun] The process of achieving ever-greater functional performance with progressively less material, energy, and weight over time. From English ephemeral (from Latin ephemerus, from Greek ephēmeros, meaning 'lasting a day, short-lived') + the suffix -ization (denoting a process). The specific technological sense was coined by Richard Buckminster Fuller in 1938. Unlike 'miniaturization,' which merely shrinks physical scale, or 'obsolescence,' which denotes passive fading into uselessness, ephemeralization is the active alchemy of achieving greater effect from vanishingly small substance. It is the library of Alexandria condensed onto a sliver of silicon, the transatlantic cable replaced by an invisible satellite signal, and the sprawling mechanical calculator vanishing into a silent line of code—a quiet proof that the most enduring progress is measured not by what we accumulate, but by what we can thoughtfully let go.