Critical Path

The title of Buckminster Fuller's classic late-life book Critical Path is inspired by the Apollo Project. Bucky estimated that in order for Apollo 11 to successfully launch, land on the moon, and return to Earth, the engineers had to follow a "critical path" of approximately 2,000,000 tasks that had......more

R. Buckminster Fuller published this, his last major work, in 1981. This book provides a general overview of his life, and collects together his writings about a number of projects that helped bring his work to prominence, including his geodesic domes, his World Game exercises, as well as covering v......more

This book was a seminal experience in forming my thinking, and making me the person I am...(to those who know me well, read it anyway, LOL.) Fuller has such a unique and original way of looking at things, that it blows the dust right out of your brain. All kinds of assumptions that you didn't even kn......more

This was my first encounter with the renowned R. Buckminster Fuller, and during the course of the book, with its odd abstract coinages and grand schemes, I frequently found myself debating the man's sanity. Sometimes he appears to be raving like a mad man, other times he is blindingly brilliant. I e......more

There's a lot of stuff that is dated and sounds ridiculous. Once you get past it, the book has the potential to profoundly change your mind. Just get into it. Bucky changes perception. I don't think the same way about the world after this.......more