| Meme Name: | Rube Goldberg Machines |
| Category: | design | |
| Related Concepts: |
holon
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| Related Links: |
Rube Invention Convention
Rube Goldberg home page
Archetypal RGM (Honda Ad)
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| Core Concept |
| Named after Rube Goldberg, a cartoonist who satirised the tendency to over-engineer machines. |
| complexity |
| Characterised by being labouriously contrived. Performing a seemingly simple operation by an extremely complex, roundabout means. |
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| cause and effect |
| Goldberg machines consist of series of disparate components interacting through a (humourous) sequence of cause and effect. In system theory terms, each step is a holon. |
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