Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.” — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image