Buckminster Fuller's Universe

Once, when we were members of an American delegation in Moscow for the purpose of exploring outstanding issues between the two countries, Bucky Fuller gave a talk on the human future that no one who heard him soon forgot.

Core structure

• Comprehensive Heritage
• Experiential Education
• Lessons of Love, War, and Technology
• Years of Deterioration
• Emergence from the Ashes
• Inventions Abound

Main ideas

• Bucky Fuller was born on July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, to Richard Buckminster Fuller, Sr., and Caroline Wolcott (Andrews) Fuller.
• A great deal of Fuller's formal and informal education was predicated upon experimenting with and discovering the elegant simplicity of universal patterns he found in mathematics.
• Even as a child, Fuller was beginning to envision Nature as a critical element of his life, though his philosophy and strategies would not be fully developed for many years.
• Upon graduation from the United States Naval Academy, newly commissioned Ensign R. Buckminster Fuller entered naval service.

Why it matters

The years of 1969 and 1970 marked a monumental transition for humanity and for Fuller, then seventy-five. Without ceasing work on the projects that required his attention, he shifted his focus to completion rather than to the development of new undertakings.

See Also

• Lloyd Steven Sieden — author of this biography

Sources

• buckminster_fuller_s_universe/index.md — book project directory (repo-local source tree)
• buckminster_fuller_s_universe/ — source project root