alt Hacker NewsEverything I Know (1975)
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Towards the end of his life, Bucky had achieved rock star status and his lectures filled stadiums in all corners of the world. At age 88, he twice circumnavigated the globe to give nonstop addresses. And they weren't short - his talks routinely lasted between three and four hours without breaks. Truly a remarkable character.
I remember this comic about Energy Slaves: https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/
I really enjoyed reading about his inventions when I was growing up, it was inspiring to me.
It’s also true though there’s a lot to be skeptical of, and it was also an education of sorts to go down the rabbit hole and read his Synergetics textbooks and discover he makes endless assertions that are not supported and also hard to parse.
Shameless plug: Buckminster Fuller has a (not so small) cameo in my game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/
:)
I have tried to listen to the whole thing but I have barely made a third through. I used to watch it but n archive.org and the audio wasn’t great.
Currently on mobile and the videos aren’t available to hear the audio quality. Just tried on a laptop and the video is not available.
Am I understanding correctly that around 1997 a single person transcribed 42 hours of recordings? Wild and impressive. I wonder how long it took them?
Modern tools would likely do it in 42 minutes?
I'm not sure what's going on with the ordering of the sections, but it's definitely creative.
- 01: Section 1
- 02: Section 11
- 03: Section 10
...
- 10: Section 3
- 11: Section 2
- 12: Section 12
Elegant, actually
I quite like the traingular-tiled graphic of buckminster fuller in the hero section, and that hover highlights the tiles. All very buckminster fuller-y!
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Is there an MCP?
For those unfamiliar with Bucky, I highly recommend his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Its a short, light read. He has a really interesting take on technology’s role in pirates and he was a firm believer that there is enough resources for everyone. He even talks about the US’s vulnerability to an attack on its water system.
https://archive.org/details/operatingmanualforspaceshipearth...