Grunch of giants
by R. Buckminster Fuller · first published 1983
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I'd recommend Critical Path and Grunch of Giants by Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983). Fuller was the former president of the Mensa society and claimed that a universal income became technically feasible in the 1970's. Critical Path: http://www.btronics.com/files/R.%20Buckminster%20Fuller%20-%...…
on “My father had one job, I've had six, my kids will have six at the same time” ↗Er... "Grunch\* of Giants" by R. Buckminster Fuller (\*GRoss UNiverse Cash Heist) > Here Buckminster Fuller takes on the gigantic corporate megaliths that exert increasing control over every aspect of daily life. In the form…
on “Everything I Know – 1975 Lectures by Buckminster Fuller” ↗…vastly larger, far more enduringly profitable for all, entirely new World Livingry Service Industry. It is statistically evident that the more advanced the living standard, the lower the birth rate. -Grunch of Giants, Buckminster Fuller http://www.amazon.com/Grunch-Giants-Buckminster-Fuller/dp/09...
on “A C.I.A. Grunt’s Tale of the Fog of Secret War” ↗…objectionable, whatever their status in the 2021 Overton window: staunchly anti-war, anti-corporate [0], and openly pursuing a post-scarcity utopia [1]. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285349.Grunch_of_Giants [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1321401.Utopia_or_Oblivi...
on “Buckminster Fuller on a long thin wire” ↗You probably know this, one of his books is titled "Grunch of Giants: Gross Universe Cash Heist". He had a plan, "Design science revolution", to produce artifacts for consumers that embodied the changes needed. The concept of the "trimtab" informed his methods. > Trim…
on “The License Zero Manifesto” ↗…done this in the developed world starting 100 years ago, but individuals in a position of power preferred to accumulate wealth themselves rather than distribute earnings equitably. Bucky Fuller wrote "GRUNCH of Giants" which says something similar. ("GRUNCH" is GRoss UNiversal Cash Heist) https://fullerfuturefest.com/humanitys-critical-path-from-we...
on “Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes [video]” ↗Buckminster Fuller was a pioneer of affordable and efficient housing engineering who began his career shortly after the Great Depression. In his 1980 book Grunch of Giants, he makes the prescient observations of the cyclical failure and subsequent bailouts of the US real estate and automotive industries and the high barriers to entry for innovators in this area: >The first…
on “Homeless model: New York's hidden homeless” ↗