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Buckminster Fuller ?</h2>  <div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="design_for_mobility_book" title="Design For Mobility -- now available !"> Design For Mobility -- now available !</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/31">On line Store</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/60">Store</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="170" valign="top"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061006180836/http://bfi.easystorecreator.com/Browse_Item_Details.asp/Item_ID/900132/Name/Buckminster_Fuller:_Designing_for_Mobility<br />" target="_blank"><img src="/web/20061006180836im_/http://bfi.org/images/content/frontpage_events/designingformobility.jpg" width="170" height="200" border="0" title="click to find out more"></a></td> <td valign="top"><strong>Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility</strong><br><br><br/> In keeping with the global perspective on human affairs, Fuller approached design problems comprehensively. Rather than attempt to redesign the house, he attempted to reinvent the whole housing industry. Instead of considering how to improve the conditions of cities, he declared the city itself to be obsolete. Instead of attempting to improve an existing model of automobile, he addressed the question of human transportation from first principles, emulating the design principles he observed in nature in his streamlined Dymaxion Car.</td> </tr> </table> </div> <a href="design_for_mobility_book" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 140 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/15" title="Introduction to Buckminster Fuller"> Introduction to Buckminster Fuller</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <table align="center" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td><img src="/web/20061006180836im_/http://bfi.org/images/content/fuller/buckyHand.png"></td> <td></td> <td align="left"> <p><span id="serif"><strong>For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. <br>Only ten years ago the more with less technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.</strong></span><br><br/> – R. Buckminster Fuller, 1980 </td> </tr> </table> <blockquote></blockquote> <p>This confident assertion was made in 1980 by the late R. Buckminster Fullerinventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist. As early as 1959, <i>Newsweek</i> reported that Fuller predicted the conquest of poverty by the year 2000.</p> </div> <a href="node/15" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 8417 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/825" title="Experiencing and Experience"> Experiencing and Experience</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/32">Books and Articles on line</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p><span id="gray">This essay was wittten in 1995 on occasion of the 100th aniversary of R.B. Fuller's birth by <a href="node/129">Allegra Fuller Snyder</a></span><br><br/> When I was asked to contribute to this volume I wondered where I would start. Writing about one's father is a challenging, almost overwhelming, task -- particularly if one has not confronted that presence in writing before. I have written about many other subjects, but not about Bucky.</p> </div> <a href="node/825" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 1280 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/780" title="Invisible Architecture – The NanoWorld of Buckminster Fuller"> Invisible Architecture – The NanoWorld of Buckminster Fuller</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/44">Geodesics & Structure</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/37">Our Spaceship Earth</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/39">Synergetics</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20061006180836im_/http://bfi.org/images/content/spaceship/bonnie2.png"><br><br/> <small>Bonnie DeVarco</small><br><br/> <span id="gray">65 web pages, hyperlinked to more than 250 sites | Copyright 1997 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061006180836/http://members.cruzio.com/~devarco/portfolio.htm" target="_blank">Bonnie Goldstein DeVarco</a>. All rights reserved</span><br><br/> This monumental undetaking was completed just when the World Wide Web was beginning to take off. In this online tour de force, Bonnie Goldstein DeVarco masterfully "places Buckminster Fuller, one of the great innovators of this century, into a unique lineage of great thinkers, artists, scientists and inventors." Her thesis "connects some of [Fuller's] ideas to leading edge technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology and computer information systems."<br><br>This paper was made possible by a research grant from the Buckminster Fuller Institute.</p> </div> <a href="node/780" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 2895 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/694" title="Launching Spaceship Earth - An editorial about R. Buckminster Fuller"> Launching Spaceship Earth - An editorial about R. Buckminster Fuller</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/44">Geodesics & Structure</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/35">Bucky Quotes and Stories</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p>by Asha Deliverance, founder of <a href="node/616">Pacific Domes</a><br><br/> <img src="/web/20061006180836im_/http://bfi.org/images/content/fuller/buckyindome.png"><br><br/> So long as space remains, So long as sentient beings remain, I will remain, In order to help, In order to serve, In order to make my own contribution. This is the vow of the Bodhisatva. As “Spaceship Earth” spirals into a future of radiant possibility, we find ourselves merging with the dreams; ideals and principles inspired by the great master thinkers of humanity.<br><br><strong>R. Buckminster Fuller</strong>; inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet and cosmologist was one of the most enlightened mystics of the last century. His universal vision saw our planet as “Spaceship Earth”. He secretly took the responsibility of being a “ships captain” and with passionate intent made his goal helping to care for everyone onboard. Bucky committed his entire productivity to the whole planet Earth and its resources; undertaking to protect and advance all life. He found greater effectiveness in his work when doing so entirely for others. The larger number for who he worked, the more positively effective he became.</p> </div> <a href="node/694" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 2352 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/587" title="Who Was Buckminster Fuller ? by E.J. Applewhite"> Who Was Buckminster Fuller ? by E.J. Applewhite</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p>Buckminster Fuller had one of the most fascinating and original minds of his century. Born in 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts, he was the latest--if not the last--of the New England Transcendentalists. Like the transcendentalists, Fuller rejected the established religious and political notions of the past and adhered to an idealistic system of thought based on the essential unity of the natural world and the use of experiment and intuition as a means of understanding it. But, departing from the pattern of his New England predecessors, he proposed that only an understanding of technology in the deepest sense would afford humans a proper guide to individual conduct and the eventual salvation of society.</p> </div> <a href="node/587" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 2888 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/586" title="Guinea Pig B"> Guinea Pig B</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/30">RBF Resources On-line</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p><img src="/web/20061006180836im_/http://bfi.org/images/content/fuller/books/GuineaPigB_s.png"><br><br/> Guinea Pig B is a name Bucky gave himself, to signify that his life was an experiment.<br><br/> Excerpted from "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061006180836/http://bfi.easystorecreator.com/Browse_Item_Details.asp/Item_ID/20/categ_id/1/parent_ids/0,1/Name/Buckyworks_-_Buckminster_Fullers_Ideas_for_Today_by_J_Baldwin" target="_blank">BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today" by <a href="/web/20061006180836/http://bfi.org/node/386">James T. Baldwin</a>:<br><br/> His alternative to politics was radical and deeply subversive. If we are designed like other animals to be a success, then nature must have provided enough of everything needed for all to live a healthy existence. People living well would have little interest in fighting and destruction. Bucky decided that reliable information and efficient design could identify and fairly distribute the Earth's resources, bringing a good life to all. Developing that information and putting it to work would be the mission of Guinea Pig B.<br><br/> <i>Reused by permission of the publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</i><br></p> </div> <a href="node/586" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 1781 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/506" title="Introduction to Buckminster Fuller by Victoria Vesna"> Introduction to Buckminster Fuller by Victoria Vesna</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p>by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061006180836/http://www.olats.org/pionniers/pp/buckminster/biographieVesna.php" target="_blank">Victoria Vesna</a>, 10/2002<br></p> <p><span id="book">Thence evolved a mathematics based on the proportion of reciprocal forces, complements, and functions of a mobile, non-static TIME-world. Thus the scientist-philosopher-artist, by the teleogical mechanism of mathematics which contains in its infinite ramifications all the secrets personally contacted by the Yogi, made possible continuity of the expression of the truth beyond "the great wall" of the body and of personal death. (Fuller, 1938, p. 105)</span></p> </div> <a href="node/506" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 2009 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/131" title="Big Picture Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller"> Big Picture Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/32">Books and Articles on line</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p><strong>THINKING DISCIPLINE</strong><br><br/> Fuller: I am going to review two or three ways in which I discipline myself to try to get myself thinking in a little more adequate manner concerning what we know of our Universe and what may be going on in a larger way, and to try to get things a little better proportioned. As for instance, I would like to have a picture of our Milky Way galaxy may I have that picture please?</p> </div> <a href="node/131" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 2033 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="buckys_patents" title="R. Buckminster Fullers 28 patents"> R. Buckminster Fullers 28 patents</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/46">Fuller's Dymaxion Designs</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p>Complete listing of R. Buckminster Fuller's 28 patents from 1927 - 1983<br/> <a href="?q=image/tid/62"><img src="/web/20061006180836im_/http://bfi.org/images/content/galleries/patents_s.png" border="0"></a><br><br/> <small>View Images of Fuller's patents in the <strong><a href="?q=image/tid/62">Patent Gallery</a></strong></small><br></p> </div> <a href="buckys_patents" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 3933 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/134" title="Only Integrity is Going to Count / Interview with R. Buckminster Fuller"> Only Integrity is Going to Count / Interview with R. Buckminster Fuller</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a> | <a href="taxonomy/term/32">Books and Articles on line</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p><strong>Interviewer</strong>: If or when we accomplish a hundred percent physically successful world, what is the next step? Can we rely on humans to progress without physical need?<br><strong>RBF</strong>: I would like to come back to my earlier questions of myself of why were humans included in the Universe? I think I did discuss that earlier, didn’t I?<br><strong>Interviewer</strong>: Yes.</p> </div> <a href="node/134" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 1558 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/63" title="Basic Biography"> Basic Biography</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p><img src="/web/20061006180836im_/http://bfi.org/images/content/fuller/fullerAnneAllegra.png"><br><br/> <small>RBF, Anne and Allegra at the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago, July 1928</small><br/> <br><br/> <strong>Richard Buckminster Fuller</strong><br/> born in Milton, Massachusetts, July 12,1895, son of Richard Buckminster and Caroline Wolcott (Andrews) Fuller</p> </div> <a href="node/63" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 4097 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/17" title="Books written by R. Buckminster Fuller (with images)"> Books written by R. Buckminster Fuller (with images)</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p><img src="/web/20061006180836im_/http://bfi.org/images/content/fuller/books/CriticalPath_s.png"><br><br/> Books written by R. Buckminster Fuller (with images)<br></p> </div> <a href="node/17" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="read-more">read more</a> | 6269 reads</div> <hr class="rbf"/> </div><div class="node"> <h2 class="rbf"> <a class="rbf" href="node/69" title="Books about R. Buckminster Fuller (with Images)"> Books about R. Buckminster Fuller (with Images)</a></h2> <div class="info"><span class="terms">section: <a href="taxonomy/term/25" class="active">Who is R. Buckminster Fuller ?</a></span></div> <div class="content"> <p><img src="/web/20061006180836im_/http://bfi.org/images/content/fuller/books/BFAutoMonologue_s.png"><br><br/> Complete listing of Books about R. 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