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MENTAL MODEL · M3406

Ephemeralization

Ephemeralization
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

The trend of technological progress is to achieve increasingly powerful functions with less and less material and energy (e.g., from cables to fiber optics to satellites), ultimately tending toward "intangibility". Scaffolding role: dematerialization trend. Guides product evolution direction: de-materialization, lightweight. Value lies in function (Service), not in the carrier (Hardware).

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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Dematerialization trend. Guides product evolution direction: de-materialization, lightweight. Value lies in function (Service), not in the carrier (Hardware).

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Ephemeralization is a resource efficiency trend: technological progress achieves increasingly powerful functions with less material and energy, ultimately tending toward "intangibility". It is similar to "doing more with less", emphasizing winning by function rather than carrier.

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