Pioneer inventors including Buckminster Fuller imagined a technology-driven future directed towards sustainability but it is a future that has been forgotten
In the later years of his life, the American designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller often told a story about a painful period in his early 30s. It was 1927, and he was out of work; he was depressed and drinking heavily, and sick with worry about his ability to provide for his family.
– which is not so much a biography as a long, stylish riff on the wayward notions and inspired inventions of its subject – Fuller emerges as a figure wholly attuned to the spirit of modernism, driven almost mad by the technological possibilities of the 20th century. Like Pound, whose imperative to “make it new!” became the keynote exhortation of the movement, he was impelled by a desire to break with formal conventions and to exploit every aspect of modernity.
Who Killed Una Lynskey? by Mick Clifford – Garda heavy gang under the spotlight in the investigations of two disturbing 1970s murders Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House could be mass produced, shipped in a single container and built in a matter of hours
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