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October 12, 2006
Buckminster Fuller's genius!
Reading Buckminster Fuller's writing, I am amazed by both his passion to be an inventor and his persistence to believe in his ideas and not give up on them, even when engineers told him that his geodesics theory "would not work". And he persisted for 30 years until he got them to believe him!!
I also think the way he thinks is so idealistic, almost utopian. Maybe I only think that because I don't understand exactly what the implications of determining the "minimum set of differentiability of non-redundant, precessionally regenerative structural systems" would be.
He definitely has much more foresight and perceptiveness than most people. It seems like he is able to really understand the structures he is studying/buiding (e.g. the bicycle wheel) and visualize what the structure can achieve, where else it can be applied etc, even when it exists only in theory. It's really impressive.
Posted by Kyveli Vezani at October 12, 2006 11:23 AM