Fuller is probably one of the more overrated intellectuals of the 20th century. His greatest talent lay in self-promotion. He was not a competent engineer, ar

Fuller is probably one of the more overrated intellectuals of the 20th century. His greatest talent lay in self-promotion. He was not a competent engineer, architect or scientist. His one good idea wasn't really his (geodesic domes had been patented in Germany decades earlier) and he required the services of an actual architect to get anything done with them.