Slashdot: Geeks in SpaceNews for nerds, stuff that mattersThe Life and Times of Buckminster Fuller- June 23, 2008 The New Yorker features a review of the life and work of R. Buckminster Fuller, on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition in New York 25 years after his death. Fuller was a deeply strange man. He documented his life so thoroughly (in the "Dymaxion Chronofile," which had grown to over 200K pages by his death) that biographers have had trouble putting their fingers on what, exactly, Fuller's contribution to civilization had been. The review quotes Stewart Brand's resignation from the cult of..http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotGeeksInSpace/~3/317741703/article.pl |