You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. “From now on you need never await temporal attestation to your thought. Until one day, he had a profound experience in which he felt himself levitating off the ground, encapsulated in a sphere of white light. But the company eventually failed, and shortly after his daughter passed away from polio and meningitis.įuller contemplated suicide when his family fell into financial hardship, which was compounded by the self-imposed guilt from his daughter’s death. Later in life, Fuller attended Harvard though he was kicked out twice, recognizing himself as a non-conformist, misfit.Īfter serving a brief stint in the Navy, Fuller and his father founded a company that provided affordable, lightweight, weatherproof housing, a concept that would later become the foundation of his design philosophy. His education started at a Froebelian kindergarten, where art and creativity were given as much encouragement as traditional education. By using foresight that looked outside of the box and focused on systemic problems in every aspect solving current problems with the prudence to also solve future ones.įuller’s upbringing seemed to incubate the eccentric genius that he later became in life. His vision became one which focused on a utopian society of sorts, in which a ‘critical path’ could be developed to cooperatively pilot Spaceship Earth. He aimed to create a world that worked for everyone, employing technology to spread our limited resources and satisfy a growing population. Fuller argued that through design and technology there should be no reason to have people suffering and starving on Earth. This is counter to the Malthusian line of thought, in which exponential population growth will inevitably outpace food production. Our ability to go from wired to wireless technology or fossil fuels to alternative renewables are examples that embody Fuller’s vision. Though this might seem paradoxical at its extreme, the utility that we have been able to achieve with technology has followed this line of thinking to a certain extent. With this, he coined the word ephemeralization, the concept that the sum can be greater than its parts that we have the ability to do more and more with less and less, until we can achieve everything with nothing. He was a designer, inventor, author, architect, and systems specialist, but most notably a visionary whose ideas focused on considering the greater picture even when working on the minutiae.įuller’s vision for humanity focused on the premise that our intellect gave us an innate duty to overcome physical constraints, ad infinitum, with our ability to think, reason, and solve problems. Though he never went to space to experience this profound perspective, Fuller shared this sentiment and devoted his life to modeling a future that would embrace it. At this point astronauts understand the importance and necessity of taking care of our planet and the collective need to coexist peacefully. A sense of enlightenment, utter transcendence, and overwhelming bliss from the beauty and perfection of Earth in its entirety. There is a common experience that is shared between astronauts who traveled to the moon and looked back on Earth.
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