ephemeralization

What do you mean? I think the standard of living is going up in most of the "first world" countries. Now, the third world countries which don't have technology have much lower standards of living.

A term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller. It refers to the ability of people to use technological advances to continuously do more with less. Fuller’s vision was that ephemeralization will result in ever increasing standards of living for an ever growing population despite finite resources. (Wikipedia)

Has this been disproven?