Full name: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity

Author: R. Buckminster Fuller Year: 1969 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Non Fiction, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780879510039 9783037781272 087951003X 3037781270

Utopia or Oblivion is a provocative blueprint for the future. This comprehensive volume is composed of essays derived from the lectures he gave all over the world during the 1960's. Fuller's thesis is that humanity - for the first time in its history - has the opportunity to create a world where the needs of 100% of humanity are met. This is Fuller in his prime, relaying his urgent message for earthians critical moment and presenting pioneering solutions which reflect his commitment to the potential of innovative design to create technology that does "more with less" and thereby improves human lives . . . "This is what man tends to call utopia. It's a fairly small word, but inadequate to describe the extraordinary new freedom of man in a new relationship to universe - the alternative Similar books: Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller I Seem to Be a Verb by R. Buckminster Fuller Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller The Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark The Big Picture by Sean Carroll On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems by Kurt Godel The Field by Lynne McTaggart Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins Godel's Proof by Ernest Nagel The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll Human Compatible by Stuart Russell Against Method by Paul Feyerabend Bad Astronomy by Philip Plait