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I attended a lecture by Buckminster Fuller when I was thirteen, in Burlington, VT. I was starstruck and inspired. I used a spaced repetition method to partially
by satisfice 4y ago
I attended a lecture by Buckminster Fuller when I was thirteen, in Burlington, VT. I was starstruck and inspired. I used a spaced repetition method to partially memorize his talk and reproduced part of it for my science class the following day.
He spoke about putting a dome over Winooski, and showed artists renditions of it. He bounced a tensegrity sphere. He spoke of his 50-year experiment (from the moment he chose not to commit suicide and instead see if he could do good in the world).
I have, all my life, been influenced by his slightly nutty intellectual spirit.
- sirspacey 4y agoWhat a wild experience! Any part of the speech you recall?
- satisfice 4y agoNot word for word. But it was a speech about his project: doing more with less. He spoke about his Dymaxion car and how it met its tragic end, and his Dymaxion houses idea. He said a lot about domes and the benefits thereof. He was very keen to tell us about triangles and tensegrity. He may have shown his Dymaxion map. Systems thinking plus a lot about triangles.