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Critical Path

Critical Path

R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist. Perhaps best remembered for the Geodesic Dome and the term "Spaceship Earth," his work and his writings have had a profound impact on modern life and thought. Critical Path is Fuller's master work--the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern--as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication in 1981. Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current situation--at the limits of the planet's natural resources and facing political, economic, environmental, and ethical crises. The crowning achievement of an extraordinary career, Critical Path offers the reader the excitement of understanding the essential dilemmas of our time and how responsible citizens can rise to meet this ultimate challenge to our future.


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“World Game finds that 60 percent of all the jobs in the U. S. A. are not producing any real wealth—i. e., real life support. They are in fear-underwriting industries or are checking-on-other-checkers, etc.”

Pg 223. - Google Books Result https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0312174918 - 1982 - ‎History
From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

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“Those whom God hath joined together let no one put asunder.”

To Anne Hewlett Fuller on this, our 63rd Wedding Anniversary and my 85 Birthday—July 12, 1980
From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

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