I have a fascination with Bucky's works and the book recommended in the post is by far the best starting point. Some things about his life that are interesting

I have a fascination with Bucky's works and the book recommended in the post is by far the best starting point. Some things about his life that are interesting: * He got kicked out of Harvard. Twice. * He lived a 'normal' life until his late twenties. He thought his life was a failure and was considering ending it when he changed his outlook. * He tried to produce a catalogue of all Earths resources believing we would take better care of the environment if we know how quickly we were consuming resources * He wanted to build a giant model of the Earth outside the UN with live projections of all current wars, resource distributions, population density, etc (aka a real world google earth)