CONCEPT
Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science
Fuller's term for the design discipline that sees wholes, anticipates consequences, and applies scientific rigor to the question of how the world could be arranged to serve all passengers.
Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science was Fuller's name for the methodology he practiced and taught across five decades. The three words carry precise structural weight. Comprehensive: the optimization boundary includes the whole system rather than any one component. Anticipatory: the design projects forward through time, modeling consequences rather than responding to outcomes. Design Science: the rigor of the natural sciences applied to the arrangement of human systems rather than to their observation. Fuller listed as core strategies in his 1950 MIT syllabus the 'accelerating replacement of humans by machines in all muscle, reflex, regenerative feed-back, integrative calculation' and the 'progressive transfer of population from physical production and distribution functions to a fundamental preoccupation with education, experiment, search, research, development.' The discipline is what AI both demands and makes possible for the first time.
In The You On AI Field Guide
The methodology grew from Fuller's observation that specialization — the dominant intellectual architecture of industrial civilization — systematically