You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (577 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019933823X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not light reading Interesting bio on an apparently complicated and possibly narcissistic man who really was ahead of his time. The Fuller of his own imagination is well contrasted with the public Fuller - and the failing Fuller, not much that he did was successful - and I enjoyed the telling.. Enjoyable book about an interesting man Earl You Belong to the Universe by Jonathon Keats is an interesting overview of Buckminster Fuller. I am somewhat hesitant to call it a biography since it is less about telling his life's story than it is about discussing Fuller's strengths and weaknesses as they were then and what they might say about our future. But, yeah, it is still basically a biographical. Eh! Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Neal Tyson DeGrasse, and Elon Musk spark my interest. Buskminster Fuller, I think not. This book is a struggle for the college educated. When I got to page 20 and footnote number 5 ended with the word apophenia, I decided that this book was not for me. Not that I don't often look up words I do not know, but knowing what apophen
He is recently the author of the story collection The Book of the Unknown (Random House), winner of the American Library Association's 2010 Sophie Brody Medal, as well as Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology (2010) and Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age (2013), both published by OUP.. Jonathon Keats is a write
Along the way he enriched human existence with inventions such as the geodesic dome and revolutionary concepts about peace and our place in the environment. In vivid prose that details all of Fuller's eccentricities and achievements, Keats strips away the icon's layers to reveal a truer, even more fascinating portrait of the 20th century genius." -- Discover Magazine"If Fuller is better known for objects than ideas, that's partly because of the complexity of how he thought. Sometimes it takes a real visionary to know one." -- Bruce Sterling, author of Tomorrow Now and Holy Fire"I loved reading Jonathon Keats's fascinating book on one of my favorite thinkers and opti
Keats argues that Fuller's life and ideas, namely doing "the most with the least," are now more relevant than ever as humanity struggles to meet the demands of an exploding world population with finite resources. You Belong to the Universe documents Fuller's six-decade quest to "make the world work for one hundred percent of humanity." Critic and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats sets out to revive Fuller's unconventional practice of comprehensive anticipatory design, placing Fuller's philosophy in a modern context and dispelling much of the mythology surrounding Fuller's life. Fuller's creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring neither plumbing nor sewage. Keats's timely book challenges each of us to become comprehensive anticipatory design scientists, providing the necessary tools for continuing Fuller's legacy of improving the world.. Yet in spite of h