2 ‘‘The Dark Ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.’’
3 —from the first chapter by R. Buckminster Fuller
4 So begins the seminal work and lasting legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller. The last complete work of one of this century’s great visionaries, Cosmography is aimed directly at the nonscientific reader, and gives us yet another glimpse into the mind of the man who invented the dymaxion car and the geodesic dome. It is also a work that should be the springboard for new scientific visions in the 1990s and beyond. Fuller always held that modern science was too encumbered by rigid ideas to solve the world’s great problems, and that the governing principles of nature—which the layman could intuit— would yield the essential creative solutions. For the first time Fuller links his revolutionary nature-based science, synergetics, with politics and history, to inspire the nonscientific thinkers he felt would be the builders of the future. As iconoclastic as always, Fuller offers explanations of his radical theories in an accessible, reader-friendly style.
11Cosmography
12A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity
13R. Buckminster Fuller, Kiyoshi Kuromiya
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15 ISBN: 978-0025418509
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18 ‘‘The Dark Ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.’’
19 —from the first chapter by R. Buckminster Fuller
20 So begins the seminal work and lasting legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller. The last complete work of one of this century’s great visionaries, Cosmography is aimed directly at the nonscientific reader, and gives us yet another glimpse into the mind of the man who invented the dymaxion car and the geodesic dome. It is also a work that should be the springboard for new scientific visions in the 1990s and beyond. Fuller always held that modern science was too encumbered by rigid ideas to solve the world’s great problems, and that the governing principles of nature—which the layman could intuit— would yield the essential creative solutions. For the first time Fuller links his revolutionary nature-based science, synergetics, with politics and history, to inspire the nonscientific thinkers he felt would be the builders of the future. As iconoclastic as always, Fuller offers explanations of his radical theories in an accessible, reader-friendly style.
21 BOOKS BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
22Nine Chains to the Moon
234D Timelock
24Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization
25Ideas and Integrities
26No More Secondhand God
27Education Automation
28Utopia or Oblivion
29Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
30Design Science Decade Documents
31Intuition
32Earth, Inc.
33Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth
34Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
35Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
36Tetrascroll
37And It Came to Pass—Not to Stay
38Buckminster Fuller on Education
39Critical Path
40Grunch of Giants
41Inventions
42Synergetics Dictionary: The Mind of Buckminster Fuller
43 Copyright ©1992 by the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
44All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.
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46Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895--1983.
Cosmography / R. Buckminster Fuller: adjuvant, Kiyoshi Kuromiya. p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-02-541850-5
1. Cosmography. I. Kuromiya, Kiyoshi. II. Title.
GA9.F85 1992
113—dc20 91--33459 CIP
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