R. Buckminster Fuller—architect, engineer, mathematician, designer—is the closest thing the 20th century ever saw to Leonardo da Vinci, and I take time every few years to re-read most of his works. Right now I’m breezing through J. Baldwin’s BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller’s Ideas for Today for I think the third time. It’s a gas because Baldwin worked with Bucky for more than 30 years and has some pretty keen insights of his own.
Synchronicity happens, and this morning Utne published “In Spaceship Earth’s Cockpit”, an overview of a Flash implementation of Bucky’s imagined “geoscope” that would allow us to see the planetary effects of various future scenarios in real time. The implementation, called EARTHscope, is being created by researchers at the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
Maybe if we can visualize sustainability we can realize it.
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