Next read his patents.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/847300979632463876 …
what are they like? I think I'm done after 1 book... might browse a few others for gestalt though
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I enjoyed Critical Path & GRUNCH of Giants, but that was many years ago & those may be either dated or obvious by now
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the writing does sound like it would have been a breath of fresh air in the 1960s.
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@vgr A lot of people talk utopia, but Buckminster Fuller actually shows you how to build it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@vgr https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pages/US3063521-1.png … impenetrable but seminal https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pages/US2986241-4.png … https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/bibliography/patents … it's the quality of the engineering. -
Not engineering related, & I wish I had a higher-res version of it, but his "Grand Strategy of World Problem Solving" inspires me.pic.twitter.com/3ah2hcbIT5
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The Artifacts of Buckminster Fuller is great patent/visual browsing if you live by an architecture library (huge 4 vol work)
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For anyone who's looking this is in the Art & Architecture collection in Norlin, which is open to the public. http://libraries.colorado.edu/record=b1611215~S3 …
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