Buckminster Fuller

Hi Group, I think you may find this information interesting, I researched this during Creative interaction and intend to continue looking into the theories and works of Buckminster Fuller.

Born: 12 July 1895
Birthplace: Milton, Massachusetts
Died: 1 July 1983
Best Known As: the inventor of the geodesic dome
R. Buckminster Fuller was a 20th century inventor, mathematician and futurist. Philosophically he was concerned with meeting the needs of a growing global civilization while reducing the use of natural resources; his inventions were meant to achieve those goals by simplifying and improving human housing and the objects of daily life. Never quite a mainstream figure, Fuller was viewed by some as an impractical dreamer but embraced by others as a visionary genius. His most famous invention, the geodesic dome, uses a series of interlocking triangles to create a lightweight, sturdy dome which needs no internal supports.
Fuller coined the phrase "Spaceship Earth."
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Buckminster Fuller was truly a man ahead of his time. His lifelong goal was the development of what he called "Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science"-- the attempt to anticipate and solve humanity's major problems through the highest technology by providing "more and more life support for everybody, with less and less resources."

Fuller was a practical philosopher who demonstrated his ideas as inventions that he called "artefacts." Some were built as prototypes; others exist only on paper; all he felt were technically viable. He was a dogged individualist whose genius was felt throughout the world for nearly half a century. Even Albert Einstein was prompted to say to him, "Young man, you amaze me!"

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