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Jonathan Cape. One World Socialists devised the slogan 'One World' as a concise description of the society we are striving for. Socialism means that the whole world will operate as a single productive system where goods and services will be produced so that people can use them freely without resorting to buying and selling. It also means that the people of the world will be united on the only solid basis for achieving this end—by the resources of the world (the means of producing wealth) being owned in common and democratically controlled by mankind as a whole. 'One World', then, represents an entirely different vision of the future to such schemes as the 'United Nations' or 'Internationalism' which, as their names imply, are attempts to improvise a patchwork from the fragments which capitalism makes of the world. The American scientist Buckminster Fuller, whose work over more than forty years has brought him recognition as an architect and industrial designer, is not a socialist.
But his understanding of what industrialisation has done to the world, and the potential abundance it gives rise to, has led him to a number of conclusions which are similar to ours. Since the problems which face mankind are 'whole-world problems', since culturally and scientifically we are all enrolled in a 'One World University', given the 'world-girdling air transport and communication services', what we are rapidly being confronted by is a 'constantly shrinking 'one-town world'.' “Any who have looked at the jet plane schedules know that they can fly to the furthermost points around the earth from where they start in less than twenty hours, so that within the day they can reach the furthermost point of the earth.
Projecting for only five years, you find the speed is such that you will be able to leave your home any morning, go to any part of the earth to do your day's work, and come home for dinner. And if our definition of a town is a place where you work and sleep, then in five years from today we can have a one-town world. What has been a theoretical and idealistic concept will be stark reality.“ Because of industrialisation, 'wealth is now without practical limit.' Traditional ways of thinking of consumption ('you can't have your cake and eat it') are completely outdated. 'You can now have your cake and eat it. The more you eat, the more and the better the quality of the cakes to be had by further production.'
'It is completely clear that all men now may be successful in living in a progressively satisfactory enjoyment of total earth'. At last we have the ability to 'make man a success on earth' and the sequelae of a step like this do not escape Professor Fuller. 'If this is successfully done, the Malthusian and Darwinian frustrations will be completely irrelevant. There will be enough to go around, and the politicians will have no mandate to build weapons.' 'There is a dawning awareness that I am saying something realistic when I say 'Reform the environment, don't try to reform man'.'
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The trouble with Buckminster Fuller and other brilliant men like him is that while their scientific training and technological expertise make it clear to them that 'we will soon have to design the over-all industrial network for making the world work for all humanity', politically they have never climbed out of their cradles. True, Professor Fuller dismisses what he calls 'gold capitalism' ('as obsolete as the stone hammer') and even his rejection of socialism is fair enough ('Socialism was one of yesterday's ways of dealing with inadequate wealth') —because by 'socialism' he simply means either a state capitalist system or government intervention in the American economy. What he doesn't call into question, however, is capitalism's motive force—the production of goods for sale on the world markets in order to realise a profit. As long as this is the priority which production is he is dedicated to proving to be technically feasible is bound to remain a dead letter. The Buckminster Fuller Reader is a useful anthology of his speeches and writings over the last forty-odd years and is only marred by the fact that it is unreadable.
Professor Fuller's prose has to be seen to be believed. Sample sentence — 'Environment embraces a complex of non-simultaneously occurring but omni-integrating, or inter-stimulating and therefore inter-regenerating mutations of man's integral, internal, metabolic regeneration organisms on the one hand, and on the other of his external, invention realised metabolic regeneration organism which we think and speak of as industrialisation.' If that whets your appetite there is a copy in the Socialist Party's library.
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Guide to the R. Buckminster Fuller Papers. Description The papers of this 20th century polymath contain his personal archive the Dymaxion Chronofile, manuscripts, drawings and audio-visual materials relating to his career as an architect, mathematician, inventor and social critic. Background Richard Buckminster Fuller was born July 12, 1895, in Milton, Mass. Fuller was descended from a long line of New England Nonconformists, the most famous being his great-aunt, the Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.
Fuller's father died when he was a child, and the young Bucky-as he was known throughout his life-grew up in genteel but straightened circumstances. Restrictions Property rights reside with the repository. Buckminster Fuller Virtual Institute-HOME. List of Buckminster Fuller Resources on the Internet. CJ Fearnley's Home Page. Blog and Twitter Feeds Basic Biography 3 Page Bio of CJ Fearnley.
I am born Christopher J. Fearnley in Troy, NY, US, on the planet Earth to John Albert Fearnley and Marilyn Jean Fearnley. I teach chess lessons to first graders for my first job. I graduate from Bethlehem Central High School, Delmar, NY. I serve as a Student Intern: System Design in LOTUS 1-2-3, New York State DOT (Department Of Transportation) Engineering R & D Bureau. Pipe Dream publishes my Perspective on 'Changed Requirements Would Hurt Choices' in the February 16, 1988 issue. Reading Synergetics: Some Tips.
Intro to Synergetics. Readings Topics Domes Map Links Synergetics is a philosophy wherein geometric concepts serve as central metaphors. Scenarios, perhaps rendered as computer animations, provide a glue language, a visual vocabulary serving to complement the thousand-plus, often densely worded passages. ) Synergetics is the empirical study of systems in transformation, with an emphasis on total system behavior unpredicted by the behavior of any isolated components, including humanity's role as both participant and observer. Since systems are identifiable at every scale from the quantum level to the cosmic, and humanity both articulates the behavior of these systems and is composed of these systems, synergetics is a very broad discipline, and embraces a broad range of scientific and philosophical studies including tetrahedral and close-packed-sphere geometries, thermodynamics, chemistry, psychology, biochemistry, economics, philosophy and theology.
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Despite a few mainstream endorsements such as articles by Arthur Loeb and the naming of a molecule 'buckminsterfullerene,' synergetics remains an iconoclastic subject ignored by most traditional curricula and academic departments. Buckminster Fuller's Work. Buckminster Fuller once wrote 'Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time. ' Admittedly, I am trying to make Fuller consistent.
I have been studying Fuller's work for several years and I am now in the process of making my notes available through these web pages. I hope that by working together we can go through Fuller's work and pull together a consistent presentation of his ideas.
List of subjects. Here is a Table of Contents style list of the main subjects which I am exploring with respect ot R. Links to Other People's Web Sites. Gray's Fuller Notes. The following is a list of errors, misprints and, I hope, corrections to Fuller's Synergetics books.
Most of these entries were identified by Chris Fearnley and myself back in (about) 1991. But I have added some things since then. If you have other corrections to the Synergetics books please send me an e-mail note and I will add your items to this list. Synergetic Volume Conversion Constant. I have been asked to clarify Fuller's Synergetic Constant and how it is used to convert the Cube based volume equations of the polyhedra into Synergetics Tetrahedron based volume equations. By 'Tetrahedron based volume' I mean that the Tetrahedron is defined to be the unit of volumetric measurement, not the Cube.
As I understand it, you need to do 3 things to convert to Synergetics accounting: 1) Identify where in the polyhedron the Tetrahedron edge occurs. If the cube based volume equation uses a different length than where the Tetrahedron edge occurs in the polyhedron, then convert the cube base volume equation to use the Tetrahedron edge length. For the Platonic polyhedra, the Cube is the only polyhedron for which this applies. 2) Multiply by the conversion factor sqrt(9/8), and 3) Take into account the fact that Synergetics counts the unit edge length of the Tetrahedron to be 2 sphere radii (sphere diameter) in length. The (Cube based) equation for the volume of the Tetrahedron is. Gray's HomePage. Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics.
Synergetics: explorations in the geometry of thinking - Richard Buckminster Fuller, E. A Fuller Explanation - Amy C. Synergetics on the Web. Buckminster Fuller. '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.
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Only ten years agao the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done.
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