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  2. Buckminster Fuller - Wikipedia

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    Buckminster Fuller was a Unitarian, and, like his grandfather Arthur Buckminster Fuller (brother of Margaret Fuller), [41] [42] a Unitarian minister. Fuller was also an early environmental activist , aware of Earth's finite resources, and promoted a principle he termed " ephemeralization ", which, according to futurist and Fuller disciple ...

  3. Nine Chains to the Moon - Wikipedia

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    Nine Chains to the Moon is a book by R. Buckminster Fuller, first published in 1938.The title refers to the observation that, when the book was written, the world population of humans (Fuller calls them "earthians"), if stood one atop another, could form chains that would reach back and forth between Earth and the Moon nine times.

  4. Critical Path (book) - Wikipedia

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    Critical Path is a book written by US author and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller with the assistance of Kiyoshi Kuromiya.First published in 1981, it is alongside Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth one of Fuller's best-known works.

  5. Dymaxion Chronofile - Wikipedia

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    The Dymaxion Chronofile is Buckminster Fuller's attempt to document his life as completely as possible. He created a very large scrapbook in which he documented his life from 1917 to 1983. Fuller describes his Chronofile as "[contribution] to the scientific documentation of the emergent realization of the era of accelerating-acceleration of ...

  6. Accelerating change - Wikipedia

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    In 1938, Buckminster Fuller introduced the word ephemeralization to describe the trends of "doing more with less" in chemistry, health and other areas of industrial development. [2] In 1946, Fuller published a chart of the discoveries of the chemical elements over time to highlight the development of accelerating acceleration in human knowledge ...

  7. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth - Wikipedia

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    Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth is a short book by R. Buckminster Fuller, first published in 1969, following an address with a similar title given to the 50th annual convention of the American Planners Association in the Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C., on 16 October 1967. [1] The book relates Earth to a spaceship flying through space.

  8. Ephemeralization - Wikipedia

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    Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1938, is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing," that is, an accelerating increase in the efficiency of achieving the same or more output (products, services, information, etc.) while requiring less input (effort, time, materials, resources ...

  9. New Skin (song) - Wikipedia

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    The song's bridge quotes Buckminster Fuller's quote, "Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum , humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality."