It's not a good week to be a Bucky Fuller fan, between this and the Dymaxion Car piece that went by a few days ago. I don't want to throw the baby out with the

It's not a good week to be a Bucky Fuller fan, between this and the Dymaxion Car piece that went by a few days ago. I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Bucky's contribution is a vision of what he called "Design Science Revolution": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_science_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_science_revolution To wit: Our wealth is not really the material things we make nor the factories that make them, rather it's the immaterial principles and knowledge that gives us leverage over the material world. This wealth is all informational in nature, so it can be freely shared without impoverishing the giver. If we apply this wealth of knowledge to solving our material problems efficiently, then there is more than enough matter/energy/room for everyone to live with a good standard of living and greatly reduced manual labor. In other words, science and technology wisely applied can create a kind of secular Utopia. (We still have to contend with the human condition, of course.)