Think of Buckminster Fuller, the 20th-century innovator, and you might picture a geodesic dome or his flying car designs from the 1930s. Maybe you picture a crackpot inventor, churning out ideas that seem, at first glance, like quaintly futuristic visions. But that’s missing the point, argues a new book on Fuller titled You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future.
Buckminster Fuller’s ideas are more important now than ever
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