R. Buckminster Fuller - Synergetics and Design Revolution
R. Buckminster Fuller, probably the most prolific inventor and developer of ideas since Leonardo Da Vinci, based his life-long work for the prosperity of humanity on the idea, that the industrial production system which was built up over the course of two world wars should now be dedicated entirely to peaceful means and benefit as many people as possible. Fuller developed cars, houses, construction materials, designed whole cities and has filed so many inventions with the patent office that the list would fill pages upon pages. Today we want to take you on a tour through the life and achievements of this remarkable character.
Fuller was born in 1895 and spent his youth mostly on a New
England farm where he developed a natural talent for building and
designing things in the course of playing kid's games. As a young man,
he worked - among other things - for the U.S. Airforce as an engineer,
and later he started his own business. Up until this point, this could
have been the biography of just any normal engineer of those days.
Fuller's life turned out quite different though. Failing with his
business, losing a daughter to disease and almost losing his life to
alcoholism and depression, he had come to a turning point. From his
37th year on, Fuller took another course, and decided that it wont
either be profit or the interests of any single state or society that
he shall dedicate his work to, but all of humanity.
From that point on, Fuller became a visionary of a magnitude that many
of his concepts and inventions show their real potential only now, 23
years after his death in 1983.
Tune in and listen to a documentary program about this
man's life and work ... a journey through a 4 dimensional world, where
anarchism is not an ideology, but a corollary of the desire to create
prosperity for all humanity.
The program will be on at 19:00 - 14th of April 2006 and can be listened to at http://freeteam.nl:9000/ascii.ogg
Information resources on R. Buckminster Fuller:
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
Wikipedia Entry on Buckminster Fuller
The main work of his - Synergetics - online
The Buckminster Fuller FAQ