“This book is written with the conviction that there are no "good" or "bad" people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.”

— Buckminster Fuller

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

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