17th
Utopia or Oblivion (1969) — Buckminster Fuller
“blue-sky of the inventor’s intellect” … “took only five men to invent these world-transforming developments” p3
“These students have no political motives. They have no formal organization…”
the atom bomb is their birthmark
holocaust reading - one modernity or struggle over the definition of modernity? Single path of science or divergent?
not attributable to political doctrine - p5
politics are unnecessary - technology is enough…
“Men of the sea lived in a state of accelerated reality.” p6
pirates???? shanghaied the leonardo-da-vincis to sea from 1600-1900
installation/removal of skyscrapers in 1 day by upending the fuselage of a plane
up/down vs. out/in for direction in space… stupid
higher tech processes were listed with higher efficiencies - the view that technology is a refining process towards complete efficiencty - “world energy efficiency”
“Science states” - a static force, science…
