Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
“Earth was once molten rock, and now it makes spaceships.”
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
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Source: 1960s, Presentation to U.S. Congressional Sub-Committee on World Game (1969), p. 102
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
“The vulnerable points of Liberty now making her last stand on earth.”
Libertas ultima mundi
quo steterit ferienda loco.
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Book VII, line 580 (tr. J. D. Duff).
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