You Belong to the Universe Buckminster Fuller and the Future

Name: You Belong to the Universe Buckminster Fuller and the Future
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ISBN: 9780199338238

ISBN-10: 019933823X

ISBN-13: 9780199338238

Edition: 2016

Authors: Jonathon Keats

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Without doubt, the inventor Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (1895-1983) was a visionary. A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist" Fuller's creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring neither plumbing nor sewage. Yet in spite of his brilliant mind and life-long devotion to serving mankind, Fuller is now renowned for the wrong reasons, and even regarded as a crackpot.You Belong to the Universe documents Fuller's six-decade quest to "make the world work for one hundred percent of humanity." Journalist and art critic Jonathan Keats sets out to restore Fuller's good name, placing…

Book details

List price: $24.49
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/12/2016
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 8.31" wide x 5.71" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Jonathon Keatspens the “JargonWatch” column forWired Magazineand has written forThe Washington Post,Popular Science,and salon.com. He lives in San Francisco.