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Fuller presents the hypothesis that humanity has something that no other creature has: mind. This allows us to discover relationships between ideas rather than having to depend on those ideas by themselves. Because of this, we must be here for some reason: to be problem-solvers for the universe. This has been Fuller's drive for the past several decades. Fuller believes that humanity is in a time of extraordinary crisis. He provides a brief history illustrating the links between power and shipping, from ancient times through Magellan to the founding of the East India Company. He then describes the links from this to Malthus and Darwin, then to Karl Marx, and the roots of the two great theories of capitalism and socialism that now have the capacity to destroy all life on this planet within minutes. Next Fuller describes the variety of forces that affect our lives, most of which we are completely unable to sense directly. From there, Fuller lists the development of materials that humanity has invented to deal with those forces and put them to use for us. He continues by describing the differences between tension and compression. Fuller brings out his tensegrity sphere to illustrate these differences, and spends some time describing how the tensegrity sphere works, and how it relates to his geodesic dome designs. Fuller then relates that in 1970, he realized that the Earth has enough resources to provide an excellent standard of living for all human beings, what that means for politics, wars, etc., and the great challenge of trying to communicate this to everyone. Next, Fuller points out a wide range of logical fallacies that are made by the general public, with a bit of nerdy humor thrown in as well as a detailed exploration of geometry. He then makes some lengthy remarks relating to humanity's place in the universe, given recent advances in standards of living as well as the development of technologies capable of destroying all life on Earth. Chairman Arnold Weber presiding. description Fuller presents the hypothesis that humanity has something that no other creature has: mind. This allows us to discover relationships between ideas rather than having to depend on those ideas by themselves. Because of this, we must be here for some reason: to be problem-solvers for the universe. This has been Fuller's drive for the past several decades. Fuller believes that humanity is in a time of extraordinary crisis. He provides a brief history illustrating the links between power and shipping, from ancient times through Magellan to the founding of the East India Company. He then describes the links from this to Malthus and Darwin, then to Karl Marx, and the roots of the two great theories of capitalism and socialism that now have the capacity to destroy all life on this planet within minutes. Next Fuller describes the variety of forces that affect our lives, most of which we are completely unable to sense directly. From there, Fuller lists the development of materials that humanity has invented to deal with those forces and put them to use for us. He continues by describing the differences between tension and compression. Fuller brings out his tensegrity sphere to illustrate these differences, and spends some time describing how the tensegrity sphere works, and how it relates to his geodesic dome designs. Fuller then relates that in 1970, he realized that the Earth has enough resources to provide an excellent standard of living for all human beings, what that means for politics, wars, etc., and the great challenge of trying to communicate this to everyone. Next, Fuller points out a wide range of logical fallacies that are made by the general public, with a bit of nerdy humor thrown in as well as a detailed exploration of geometry. He then makes some lengthy remarks relating to humanity's place in the universe, given recent advances in standards of living as well as the development of technologies capable of destroying all life on Earth. Chairman Arnold Weber presiding. description false
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