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killingry

noun

Etymology

Coined by American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist Buckminster Fuller from killing + -ry, modelled on weaponry.

  1. inherited from kyllyng
  2. suffixed as killingry — “killing + -ry”

Definitions

  1. The systems and institutions which lead to killing, considered collectively.

    • The irony of course, was that Brand understood that most of the financing for Engelbart's work was flowing from the fount of "killingry"—the government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

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