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Aug 18, 2007

"I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am, I know I am not a category. I am not a thing -- a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process -- an integral function of the universe." --Buckminister Fuller

First Poet of Technology

R. Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller -- designer, architect, engineer, and mathematician. A charismatic genius, Fuller was a global thinker and futurist before we knew we needed global thinking and future vision. To educator and philosopher Marshall McLuhan, Fuller was "the Leonardo da Vinci of our time." Time called him "the first poet of technology," and the Nobel committee short-listed him for its Peace Prize. Fuller was the godfather of today's sustainability movement. As far back as the 1950s, well before modern "environmentalism," he identified a global crisis of planetary magnitude. This fascinating article further explores his unique contribution to humanity.