Internet Time Blog has an interesting article on Buckminster Fuller, including links to his work online, based on a talk by Bonnie DeVarco. Fuller is one of those people “we’ve all heard of”, yet I’ve never read his work. A quick taste of the links, plus Bonnie’s reported summary:
Characterizations of the man
Leonardo da Vinci of the 20th Century
Poet of Industrialization
Engineer Saint
Anti-academician
I Seem to be a Verb
I am a random element.
I am a comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.
His thinking
Micro-incisive and macro-inclusive
Nothing is static; everything is dynamic
The importance of charting trends
Being comprehensive rather than general
The importance of thinking out loud
The importance of INTUITION
Dare to be naïve
Among his paradigms
Newtonian to Einsteinian universe
Wired to wireless
Ephemeralization of information
Accelerating acceleration
have convinced me I need to add to my reading list…
