from the Preface

Buckminster Fuller has been alternately hailed as the most innovative thinker of our time and dismissed as an incomprehensible maverick, but there is a consistent thread running through all the wildly disparate reactions. One point about which there is little disagreement is the difficulty of understanding Bucky. "It was great! What did he say?" is the oft-repeated joke, describing the reaction of a typical enraptured listener after one of Fuller's lectures.

Education Automation Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies
by R. Buckminster Fuller

The below article is from Trimtab Summer 1999:

The Buckminster Fuller Institute is very happy to announce that the Buckminster Fuller Archive will be moving at the end of this summer to Stanford University. The agreement with Stanford was concluded on July 16th 1999 and according to Roberto Trujillo, Head of the Department of Special Collections at Stanford, where the Fuller Archive will be located, the collection will become available to scholars within a relatively brief period of time.

Grunch of Giants
by R. Buckminster Fuller
Design Science Press

OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH

by R. Buckminster Fuller
E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. c1963, 1971, paperback.

Now, Allegra then having introduced a, because she started off by saying the only way we're going to be able to make any prognostication about the future of the dance is to find out what the function of the dance is. So she had to go before it is called dance at all. But it did have a functional origin that has long, long, long ago been lost. And out of it comes graphology, all the ideographic and so forth very, very much are out of this kind of gesturing.

Now, Allegra, then went on different. She was exposed, really, to all kinds of dancing schools, modern, and she, also, was very interested in my SYNERGETICS and she loved the numerology and we had great companionship over it, and I thought she was going to be an engineer she wants to be an engineer, she seems to be so good at mathematics and so forth, so I got her entered for MIT which was quite difficult in those days for a girl to get into MIT.

I put in 22 prognostications, and the 21 of them were very carefully chosen, the 22nd one I simply said no change in the way man with a maid and vice-versa. but then the other 21 I very carefully, having at that time while I was the Science and Technology Editor of FORTUNE, I had just arrived there, and I picked everything I wrote I was confident that everything I wrote had never been in print ever. I got researchers at FORTUNE to check with me, and nobody could find any suggestion of this having been said before, so they were absolute novelties.

Your thing that you told me about yesterday is like these things happen, and when they do happen they really do happen at quite high frequency in my life and I say, it must be somewhere this sort of great mystery of ours is sort of clarifying so that like a fog lifting from everything so that you feel the connections, that really are there. Something strange goes on here.

I saw, this to me was an incredible danger that we are in. That was why I was interested in "What can the little man do?" And what I could do then, I saw, had to do then with these tools, and nothing could really stop me doing these tools, and I've never been considered subversive by anybody because I'm apolitical, I'm not talking about that. And nobody could possibly know me without knowing that I'm not calling anybody bad, and I would like everybody to win. I'm not at all biased. Right, the little fellow can do something, and, now,

The point is something has been separated here by Nature, and in the process man was after this and man uses Nature to that extent and suddenly this is in concentrate, and it is diffused in the sky, and it brought about all kinds of trouble rather than being useful.

Then, "How did you come to know what you know?" Well, I was given a lot of equipment, for instance, a brain, to store the information and pull it back

I first met Marshall McLuhan in Greece, thirteen years ago, and it was on board of a ship, and he somebody spoke to me, and I turned around and realized who it was, so he called to me, and he had two of my books in his hands, and one was NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON and he was just he said "This is my Bible," and if you ask Marshall about this he'll tell you his extensions to man, and so forth, came out of this he had the electrical extensions of man, and then got into, this brought him into ways of talking about the communication system whatever it may be.

That's about all I can say, I think. The main thing is that when I say I'm giving you a fellowship to think. And you say, well, do you want me to sit in the school house to do that. I say, No, No. You say, Can I go fishing?