“For the first time in history, it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All of humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller (circa 1980)
Buckminster Fuller envisioned a Utopian future for humanity. Blazing the trail for others to follow through his life’s work as a prolific researcher, inventor, writer and teacher, the driving force behind Fuller’s contributions was the principal that the world must work for 100% of humanity.
Born in Milton, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1895, Richard Buckminster Fuller hailed from a family lineage that produced independent thinkers, driven toward activism and public service. During his early childhood education, Bucky (as he was affectionately called) developed a love of Nature and an appreciation of the Natural Laws that pervade every living construct.
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One of Bucky’s most well-known and significant inventions is the geodesic dome, designed from nature’s own sacred geometry. Space is filled with ‘buckyballs’, also known as “Fullerenes”, icosahedral molecules with 60 linked carbon atoms.
Modern physics suggests that we live in a holographic universe. Aptly named after Bucky Fuller, Fullerenes, aka buckyballs, can be found at every scale from nano particles to galactic measure. This same geometry mirrors itself throughout the interwoven continuum of the cosmos.
Fuller blazed the trail for others to follow…
The Bucky Fuller commemorative postage stamp was released in 2004 in honor of the 50th anniversary of Fuller’s patent for the geodesic dome. The image by Boris Artzybasheff originally appeared on the cover of TIME Magazine on January 10th, 1964.
An inventor, architect, engineer and philosopher, R. Buckminster Fuller has been called one of America’s most original thinkers… an introductory video on R. Buckminster Fuller – The Buckminster Fuller Institute
“We are called to be architects of the future” ― R. Buckminster Fuller
Bucky Fuller― a Humanitarian Trail-Blazer
Many big thinkers are calling attention to the need-of-the-hour as humanity approaches ‘near-extinction levels.’ However, there is hope for a bright tomorrow as Millennials, guardians of our future, pick up the torch. Creating new norms and divesting from broken paradigms that no longer serve the greater good, Millennials are coming up with solutions, innovative ideas and technologies, forging a new era of prosperity – so, let’s hear it for the Millennials!
To quote Bucky Fuller:
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So, we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told they had to earn a living.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller
Happy Birthday, Asha Deliverance!
Pacific Domes is a futuristic company that is working toward the creation of global sustainable communities. As the founder of Pacific Domes, Asha Deliverance has the unique honor of sharing her birthday (1 day apart) with her predecessor, R. Buckminster Fuller.
Pacific Domes is the original dome company to pioneer Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic design principles. For over 40-years as president of Pacific Domes, Inc., Asha has had the great pleasure of building an American manufacturing company that has become the industry standard in geodesic dome manufacturing and installation.