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2 weeks ago

A Brief Introduction to Buckminster Fuller and His Techno-Optimistic Ideas

For all the inventions presented as revolutionary that never really caught on - the Dymaxion house and car, the geodesic dome - as well as the countless pages of eccentrically theoretical writing and even more countless hours of talk, it can be difficult for us now, here in the actual twenty-first century, to pin down the civilizational impact he so earnestly longed to make.
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Growth hacking
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3 weeks ago

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Sleep Plan: He Slept Two Hours a Day for Two Years & Felt "Vigorous" and "Alert"

Highly creative individuals may shorten sleep and use stimulants to increase productivity, but such practices can carry health risks and mixed outcomes.
Artificial intelligence
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3 months ago

Nikola Tesla Accurately Predicted the Rise of Wireless Technology & the Smartphone in 1926

Visionaries like Buckminster Fuller and Nikola Tesla shaped techno-utopian beliefs that mastering machines would transform labor, environment, genetics, and communication.
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