Index
3 Advertising, 51, 75
4Airplane, x, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xxi, xxiv-xxv, 31,32
5Alexander the Great, 65
6Aluminum, 31, 79
7Apollo Project, xiii
8Artifacts, x, xi, xv, 4--5, 12, 86
9Atomic bomb, ix, xxi, 3, 39, 41--42, 45, 46, 48--50, 53--54, 83, 90
10Atomic energy, 5, 44--45
11Automobile, xviii, 31, 43, 55, 89
12Balance-of-trade accounting, xxi, 29-30
13Bankruptcy, 27, 33, 47-48, 52, 54, 58, 74
14Banks: Banking, 25, 26, 73, 91 failures of, 46-48,53 Federal Reserve, 40, 69 industrialization and, 43, 46-48, 53
15savings, 63, 67, 69, 74-75
16Behind-the-scenes power structure. See: Grunch of Giants; Human power structures
17Bell, Alexander Graham, 42
18Birth rates, ix
19Bonds, interest-bearing, 43,46, 59-60, 66, 67, 68, 73, 74
20Brain & mind, 9, 12-13, 84, 85
21British Empire, 29,48
22Building industry, xi, xv, xvi, xvii, xi, 42
23See also: Housing industry
24Capitalism
2526banking and, 43, 46-48, 57-59, 65-76 early forms of, 25,26-27,30 lawyer, 36-37,50,82 post-World-War-II, 2, 38-42, 48, 52-54
27risktaking in, 26,27, 36, 57-59, 60, 74, 82
28shift to ‘‘know-how,’’ 78
29See also: Banks; Corporations; Landownership
30Carter, Jimmy, 38
31CIA, 49, 53
32Communication, xix, xxi, 11, 85
33Communism vs capitalism, 3, 82
34Computer, ix, xix, 5, 32, 33, 41, 80,81,90
35Copper, 25, 42, 46
36Corporations
37as nonphysical, 18, 28, 29, 34, 37-38, 39-41, 57, 78, 81, 82
38economic games of, 57-60, 63, 67-76, 77-78, 81, 82
39granted privileges of, 29 industrial games of, 55-57 mergers & acquisitions of, 33, 37-38
40propaganda of, 57
41royal sanction of, 26
4243supranational, xxi, 1-2, 17, 34, 35-36, 40-41, 44-45, 52- 54, 80-81,82
44See also: Capitalism; Grunch of Giants; Profit; Stockholder; Stocks
45Critical Path, xxiii, 48, 68, 77, 80, 85, 86, 87,91
46Critical path, 86, 87
47Critical proximity, 15
48Cross-breeding, 11,39
49Darwin, Charles, 7
50David vs Goliath story, 17, 19, 22, 82
51Design (of humans), xxiii, 13, 84
52Design (of planet), 84
53Design (of Universe), 8, 9, 13, 84, 90
54Design science (revolution), 15- 16, 80, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88-90
55Direct experience, 8, 9, 13, 65, 88
56See also: Experiment
57DNA-RNA, xxiii, 7, 11,84
58Drake, Sir Francis, 28
59Dwelling machine, xii, xv-xvii, 79
60Dymaxion Bathroom, xii
61Dymaxion Car, xiii, 64-65
62Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 79
63Dymaxion House, xii
64Dymaxion Sky-Ocean Map, xii
65Earth, as sphere, 27, 84
66Eastbound man: Westbound man, 21, 22,24,27
67Ecology, xxvi, 7-8, 84
68Edison, Thomas Alva, 42,43
69Education, 21
70Einstein’s equation: E = Me2, xxii, xxvi
71Eisenhower, Dwight D., 40-41
72Electric utilities, 30, 31, 43-44, 45,46, 47, 80
73Emergence through emergency, xv
74Energy accounting, xi, 41-42, 44-45, 46, 89-90
75See also: Petroleum
76Environment: Altering the environment, 7, 8-9, 11-12, 14, 16, 84-90
77Ephemeralization, x, xix, 5, 31- 32, 39, 43, 44, 67, 78-79, 80, 86
7879See also: Performance per weight
80Evolution, 13 cosmic, xxiii, 76, 84-85 class-one vs class-two, xix, xxiii, xxiv, 86-88 critical moment in, xxi
81Experiment (undertaken by individual), xxiv, 81
82Farms: Farming, 20,47 Food, xxi, 2, 3, 78 Ford, Henry, 55-56 4D monograph, xv Fourteenth Amendment, 28-29 Frequency in pure principle, 11, 15
83Fuller, R. Buckminster at birth (1895), 66 marriage (1917). 63 U.S. Navy (1917), 63 crisis of 1927, 8 commitment of 1927, 86, 87 4D monograph, xv Dymaxion House, xii, xvi Dymaxion Car, xiii, 64, 65 Dymaxion Bathroom, xii, xiv Nine Chains to the Moon, xiii Eco-Transformation Charts, xiii
8485Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 79
86Phelps Dodge Company, xiv on Fortune staff, xii, xvi Fuller House Company, xvii Dymaxion Sky-Ocean Map, xii book shelves, xiv Octet truss, xiv geodesic domes, xiii, 32,64
87rowing needle, xiv
8889World Resources Inventory, 86 World Game, xii
90Tensegrity projects, xi Synergetics, xii, xiv, 91 Philadelphia archives of, xi annual costs of, 64
91See also: Critical Path; Self-discipline
92‘‘General Houses,’’ xvi
93Generalized principles, xxiii, 9, 12, 13,81,83, 84, 85,90
94Geodesic dome, xiii, 32, 64
95Gestation rate, xv, xvi, xvii, 51, 85,86, 87,90
96Giamatti, A. Bartlett, 51
97Giants, 14, 17, 18-26,28,81-82
98God, 20, 21,9 1
99Gold, 25, 29, 36, 69, 70
100Good & bad, xx
101Gravity, xxiii, 13, 84
102Grunch of Giants, 1, 2, 3, 17, 18, 29, 33, 36-39, 40-41, 48, 51- 52, 57, 80-81,82,91
103104See also: Human power structures
105Heyerdahl, Thor, 21
106Horse, 7
107Horsemen, 19-21,22-23,88
108Housing industry, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, 78
109Human individual, xxii
110God and, 91
111initiative & drives of, xxiii, 10,
11285, 86, 90
113integrity of, 11
114mobility of, 78
115116success of, xx, 18-19, 80, 81, 85-86, 87-88, 90
117vs great nations & corporations, 18
118Human power structures and military supremacy, 41- 42, 44-46, 52-54,91 networking and, xxiii, 89 origin of, 19-23 political-corporate authority as, 52, 57-59, 80-81, 82, 83, 89,91 selfishness of, xxii-xxiii, 79 See also: Grunch of Giants
119Human thought, xxii, 84
120Human tolerance limits, 13, 84- 85, 87
121Humans
122123as decision-makers, 50 born helpless, 10 extinction of, ix, 45, 75, 87, 88, 91
124function of, as information gatherers & problem-solvers, x, xxiv-xxvi, 9, 10, 11, 85
125in Universe, 8, 12, 84-85 integration of, x, xix, xxii, 50, 75-76, 86, 89
126selfish, x, 79,90 tool complexes of, 15, 62-63 See also: Design (of humans) Humanity in crisis, x, xxviii, 42, 45, 75-76, 87, 90, 91
127Humanity’s option to ‘‘make it,’’ ix, x, xxvii, 3, 5, 6, 41, 76, 80, 83, 86-88, 90,91
128Inbreeding, 7, 13 Industrialization, 2,37-38,55-56 Information gathering, xxiv-xxvi, xxvii, 16
129Insurance companies, 60, 63, 64, 65-67,70,71
130Interest, 25,63,64,74-75 Invention. See: Artifacts
131Invisible: Invisibility
132133in metallurgy, chemistry, electronics, xvii, 1,35,40-41, 83
134of corporate conglomerates, 17, 18, 35-36, 38, 39, 40-41, 51-52, 57, 80, 82
135of technological gains, xx, xxviii, 5, 86
136of utilities, 44--45
137warfare, 39
138See also: Ephemeralization;
139140Scientific & technical know-how
141Killingry, 5, 39-42, 51-54, 60- 61,86
142Land & sea transport, xiii, xix, 21, 22
143Landownership, xxviii, 1 7, 19, 20, 21,23, 27, 35,48,81
144Laser, 5
145Law (civil & social), 16-17
146Learning through trial-and-error, xi, xxiv, 3, 10, 11, 65, 85
147Length-to-surface ratio, xxii, 14
148See also: Volume-weight ratio Life expectancy, 62-63,65, 66, 89 Life support inadequacy, xx, xxvii, 3, 6, 66, 82, 87
149Light, speed of, xxii, 53,78 Limited liability (Ltd.), 27,28, 30
150151See also: Bankruptcy, Corporations
152Literacy: Illiteracy, xxi, 13, 82, 83, 89
153Little individual, xi, 17, 19, 22, 82, 86, 87, 89
154Livingry, xi, xv, xvi-xvii, 54, 64, 78, 86, 87, 88, 90
155See also: Service industry
156Livingry vs killingry, ix, xi, xviii, 3, 15-16, 44-46, 80, 83, 86, 87
157Luddites, 89
158MacCready, Paul, 5, 83
159Making money with money, xvi, 18,26, 42-43, 46-48, 66, 82
160Mass interattraction, 13,15
161Mass production, x, 24, 30-31, 80, 86, 87
162Mathematics, 9, 16, 81, 84, 85, 91
163Medicine, 61-62
164‘‘Merchant Venturer’s Society,’’ 27
165Metals, xii, xiii, 25, 78
166Milos, 24
167Mind, 9, 12, 13, 15, 84, 85,90,91
168169See also: Brain & mind; Scientific & technical knowhow
170Mind vs muscle, 8, 17
171Miniaturization, 32, 33
172Money, 23, 25, 77,91
173Moneymaking, xiv-xv, xxi, 39- 40, 55-56, 64, 82
174‘‘Moral Majority,’’ 50-51
175Morgan, J. P., 42-43,46-48
176Mortgages, xvii-xviii
177Nation: National Sovereignty, x, xviii-xxi, xxiii, 76, 78, 86, 89, 90
178Navigation, xx, xxiv
179Networks, xx-xxiii, 83, 85,90
180Newton’s second law of motion, 13
181Nine Chains to the Moon, xiii
182Nixon, Richard, 52, 69,73
183One world family, x, xviii, xix, xxi, 76, 86, 87, 89
184Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 26, 77
185Performance per weight, x, xiii, 4-5,31-32, 43-44,49, 79, 86
186Petroleum, x, xx, 5,43,45
187See also: Energy Accounting Physical & metaphysical, 10,12-13, 16, 17, 18, 78,91
188Pirates, 21, 27, 29
189Politics, ix, x
190See also: Revolution
191Population growth, 3
192Prime contractors, 33,52-54
193Problem-solving, x, xii, xxiv-xxvi, xxvii, 3
194See also: Humans
195Profit, 30, 68
196corporate, 28, 42, 55
197for all, ix
198from ship ventures, 26-28 motive, xxvii, 39-40, 42, 55-56 Prototyping, x, xv, 86, 87 Pure principle, 15
199Pygmies, 14
200Queen Elizabeth, 28
201Race: No race, no class, x
202Radiation, xxiii, 84
203Radio-triangulation mapping, 42 Railroad industry, xvi, 30,43 Reagan, Ronald, 37, 40, 50, 73
204Reforming the environment not humans, xi, xx, 63, 86
205Regeneration, xx, xxiv, xxv, 7-8, 15, 16,90
206Revolution (political), 83, 85, 86, 87, 88
207Revolution (social), 85, 86-88, 89,90
208Roland (Childe Roland), 19, 23
209Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 48
210Sailing ships, xiv, xix, 23
211Satellite, xix, 5, 83
212Scientific & technical know-how, xx, xvii, 2, 5, 78, 83, 87
213Securities. See: Bonds
214Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), 59
215Self-discipline, 8
216of artifact development, xiv
217218of avoiding moneymaking as goal, xiv
219of being apolitical, x, xxiii
220221of learning from mistakes, xi, x, 10, 11
222of reforming the environment, not behavior, xi, xx, 86
223of socioeconomic interests, xix
224225Service industry, ix, xvi, xvii, 86
226Ship, 24, 26-27, 31-32
227Ship technology, 23-24
228Silver, 25
229Socialism vs free enterprise, 38, 54
230Socializability of resources, 42
231Solid: No solids, 15, 81
232Spaceship Earth, xx, xxi, 80
233Specialization: Overspecialization, xxviii
234Specialized equipment, 8-9, 14- 15
235Standard of living, higher, ix, xi, xx, xxvii, 5, 54, 80, 86, 87- 88, 89, 90
236Steel, 46,57
237Stockholders, 27, 28, 29, 30, 35, 37, 40, 44, 55-58, 66-67, 68, 70, 79
238Stocks (investments), 46,57,66-69, 70, 72, 73-74, 84
239Submarine, xiii, 49,61
240Sun energy, daily income of, xi
241Survival, x, 2,3,5,6,7-8, 15,41-42, 44-46
242See also: Humanity
243Synergetics, xii, xiv, xx, 15, 81, 84-85,91
244Tax, 67, 70,72-75
245Technology, ix, xiii, xviii, xx, 1, 16, 17, 30,40,44-46, 80
246Technological revolution, xx, 80, 83, 86
247See also: Design science
248Telephone, xviii, xix, xxi, 42, 63, 80
249Tensegrity, xi, xiv
250Thatcher, Margaret, 40
251Things: No things, 15, 81
252Tin, xiv
253Tool, 9, 11, 14-15, 16, 17, 24, 31, 58, 87, 90-91
254Touching: Never touching, xi, 13, 15
255Trade, 23, 25, 27-28
256Trafalgar, Battle of, 29
257Trust funds, 43,67-69
258Truth, 10, 11,81
259Turner, Stansfield, 39
260Turpin, 19
261United Nations, 29, 36, 90
262United States of America defense strategy of, 39-41,44--46, 48-50,51-53
263264economic history of, 33-54, 61-62
265elections of, xxiii, 45,50
266national debt of, 35,44-45, 52-
26753, 74, 76
268population of, 50
269prestige declines, xxiii, 35-36,
27068,74
271Social Security of, 70-71,73 trustbusting of, 37-38,57
272U.S. Department of Defense, 34, 49
273U.S. Justice Department, 37
274U.S. Supreme Court, 28, 29,45
275U.S. Treasury Department, 70, 73-75
276Universe, xi, xxvi, 3,9, 12, 1 3, 16, 84, 90
277See also: Design
278Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 48-50, 53, 54
279U.S.S.R.-U.S.A., 3, 35, 41-42, 45-46, 48-50, 53-54
280281See also: Killingry; Livingry vs Killingry; World War
282Up & down, 81
283Volume-weight ratio, 14
284War, as obsolete, x, 5
285Water-people, 21
286Wave behavior, xviii-xix, xx
287Wealth, 25, 26, 30,43,44-45, 77, 91
288Weaponry, 15, 53-54, 60-61, 88-89
289Weaponry industry, xxi, 15, 31, 33, 39-42, 44-46, 48-50, 52-54, 72-73, 87
290See also: Killingry
291Weinberger, Caspar, 49
292Word, as tool, 11
293Working class, 10, 17, 24-25, 88
294World Game, xii
295World War I, 34-35, 48. 52, 61
296World War II, 35, 38,44-45, 53- 54, 62
297World War III (‘‘cold’’) and IV (total), 35,38,39,41-42,44- 46,48-50, 53-54, 90
298See also: Atomic bomb