Buckminster Fuller's 42-Hour 'Everything I Know' Lectures Now Online
Buckminster Fuller: everything I know
The Buckminster Fuller Institute has published a transcript of Fuller's 42-hour 'Everything I Know' lecture series, covering his major inventions and discoveries from the Dymaxion house and car to geodesic domes and tensegrity structures. The unedited, un-cut transcripts are a raw look at Fuller's unique comprehensive design approach, and the institute invites readers to help annotate and improve the text.
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- bradly
For those unfamiliar with Bucky, I highly recommend his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Its a short, light read. He has a really interesting take on technology’s role in pirates and he was a firm believer that there is enough resources for everyone. He even talks about the US’s vulnerability to an attack on its water system.
https://archive.org/details/operatingmanualforspaceshipearth...
- situationista
Towards the end of his life, Bucky had achieved rock star status and his lectures filled stadiums in all corners of the world. At age 88, he twice circumnavigated the globe to give nonstop addresses. And they weren't short - his talks routinely lasted between three and four hours without breaks. Truly a remarkable character.
- tiagod
- thelastgallon
I remember this comic about Energy Slaves: https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/
- Isamu
I really enjoyed reading about his inventions when I was growing up, it was inspiring to me.
It’s also true though there’s a lot to be skeptical of, and it was also an education of sorts to go down the rabbit hole and read his Synergetics textbooks and discover he makes endless assertions that are not supported and also hard to parse.