Everything I Know - Buckminster Fuller

by Buckminster Fuller

In January 1975, Fuller sat down to deliver the twelve lectures that make up Everything I Know, all captured on video and enhanced with the most exciting bluescreen technology of the day. Props and background graphics illustrate the many concepts he visits and revisits, which include, according to the Buckminster Fuller Institute, "all of Fuller's major inventions and discoveries," "his own personal history in the context of the history of science and industrialization," and no narrower a range of subjects than "architecture, design, philosophy, education, mathematics, geometry, cartography, economics, history, structure, industry, housing and engineering." In his time as a passenger on what he called Spaceship Earth, Fuller realized that human progress need not separate the "natural" from the "unnatural": "When people say something is natural," he explains in the first lecture (embedded above as a YouTube video above), "'natural' is the way they found it when they checked into the picture." In these 42 hours, you'll learn all about how he arrived at this observation — and all the interesting work that resulted from it.

Genres: Philosophy

861 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 20, 2019

Reviews

[Anthony O'Connor · Rating 1 out of 5]

Much ado about nothing

1000 pages. I couldn’t finish it. Not worth my time. If this is ‘everything he knows’ then he didn’t know much, for all of his vaunted and clearly overrated reputation.
Seems to be the transcript of some long winded series of lectures given late in life. More than a few people would have been nodding off in that audience. Smug and self congratulatory.
It keeps referring to slides and pictures that whoever published the ebook couldn’t be bothered including. I really hate it when they do that.