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Buckminster Fuller on Future

1895–1983 United States

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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly — right now.

Critical Path (1981)

All previous revolutions have been political—in them the have-not majority has attempted revengefully to pull down the economically advantaged minority. If realized, this historically greatest design revolution will joyously elevate all humanity to unprecedented heights.

Critical Path (1981)

Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment. . . . Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe

Critical Path (1981)

It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry. The essence of livingry is human-life advantaging and environment controlling. With the highest aeronautical and engineering facilities of the world redirected from weaponry to livingry production, all humanity would have the option of becoming enduringly successful.

Critical Path (1981)

War is obsolete. It could never have been done before. Only ten years ago... technology reached the point where it could be done. Since then the invisible technological-capability revolution has made it ever easier so to do.

Critical Path (1981)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Buckminster Fuller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.