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Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1938, is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing," that is, an accelerating increase in the efficiency of achieving the same or more output (products, services, information, etc.) while requiring less input (effort, time, materials, resources ...
The March 1, 1943, edition of Life magazine included a photographic essay titled "Life Presents R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World", illustrating a projection onto a cuboctahedron, including several examples of possible arrangements of the square and triangular pieces, and a pull-out section of one-sided magazine pages with the map faces printed on them, intended to be cut out and glued to ...
Buckminster Fuller was a Unitarian, and, like his grandfather Arthur Buckminster Fuller (brother of Margaret Fuller), [41] [42] a Unitarian minister. Fuller was also an early environmental activist , aware of Earth's finite resources, and promoted a principle he termed " ephemeralization ", which, according to futurist and Fuller disciple ...
Fuller associated the word Dymaxion with much of his work, a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension, [5] to summarize his goal to do more with less. [ 6 ] The Dymaxion's aerodynamic bodywork was designed for increased fuel efficiency and top speed, and its platform featured a lightweight hinged chassis, rear-mounted V8 engine ...
Fuller proposed one model for how the World Game would be played farther in the future: after a week of studying a given problem, the players would partake in three rounds of peer review and negotiations. Colleague Medard Gabel described Fuller's vision as follows, using the example of world hunger:
Fuller calculator, an advanced cylindrical slide rule with a helical scale; Fuller's earth, clay used for filtering and purifying; Fuller (metalworking), a tool used to form metal when hot; Fuller (weapon), a groove in a knife or sword blade to lighten and stiffen the blade; USS Fuller, the name of two ships of the U.S. Navy
Investigators uncovered “millions” of photos and videos Fuller made of himself sexually abusing the corpses of more than an alleged 100 victims inside the computers and hard drives in his home ...
Fuller originally achieved more acceptance in the humanities as a poet-philosopher and architect. For example, he features in The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner published in 1971, prior to the publication of Synergetics. [15] The journal Nature circled Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth as one of the five most formative books on sustainability. [16]