Fiction is often more inspiring than reality. There are many ideas he swept into his personal reputation that inspired me when I was younger, and Fuller operat

Fiction is often more inspiring than reality. There are many ideas he swept into his personal reputation that inspired me when I was younger, and Fuller operating as a locus lead me from one popular idea (the architectural geodesic dome) to others, including things like sustainable architecture, the optimistic marriage of industrial efficiency with social good, the so-called "dymaxion projection" in cartography and on. I might not have been exposed to those ideas at that time - perhaps I still could have found those ideas if Fuller was generous with credit, and that would have been the more virtuous thing, but here I am nonetheless. So as an adult I can sit here and stoically accept that cynicism has (rightly) claimed another public figure, but simpler stories worked well when I was younger. Fuller's reputation inspired me to be multifaceted/multidisciplinary and creative within the realms of STEM, and made it seem possible in our ever more complicated era.