Exploring the Revolutionary Vision of R. Buckminster Fuller with the Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Cliente Amazon: Un grande libro

Italy on Oct 28, 2022

David Lesko: Einstein once said that Buckminster Fuller was the smartest man he ever met. Bucky Fuller wrote this book and it should be read by every teacher, every CEO and actually every person on the planet. He explains things that you never learned in school. How we got to where we are right now and what we need to do to ensure that we are still here for hundreds of years to come.

United States on Jun 17, 2022

thomas davey: Back in the 1960's when few were concerned about the environment, Buckminster Fuller wrote this book.
The insights will open your eyes
Fuller explains just how we got into this mess - and how to get out of it
We should have listened. But there's still time.

United States on Feb 15, 2022

M. A. Pena: El autor va "construyendo", poco a poco, una idea de la humanidad, evolución, sinergia y "Nave Espacial Tierra". Al principio va como tanteando aquí y allí ciertos conceptos, enfocándose en una cosa en un momento, y cambiando de tema en otro. Al final, en los últimos capítulos, junta todo y expresa unas ideas muy interesantes sobre el futuro de la "nave espacial" tierra y la raza humana como su "tripulación", sobre ecología, educación, fronteras de países, igualdad racial, etc...

Son ideas muy interesantes, que aún hoy consideraría "futuristas", pese a que el autor ya auguraba los cambios que propone para finales del siglo XX.

El libro está en un inglés un tanto _denso_ (expresiones seguramente de la región del escritor), pero cualquiera con un nivel medio-alto de inglés podría atreverse con este libro.

Spain on Feb 27, 2020

Dylan M: This book is well ahead of its time. It is a look into the future that is coming. I got it from my Uni Library, read it and loved it so much I had to own it. My wife looks forward to reading it.

Canada on Sep 13, 2018

Walrus mcghee: every human advance has come from the creative minds of engineers so why not delve in to the mind of one? It's a good read - not much to it but it provides a lot of food for thought; possibly more ground breaking when it was first published since the lack of sustainability in the human interaction with this planet is well within the human consciousness at present. 5*.

United Kingdom on Jul 22, 2017

Hans Knecht: Virtue signaling at its finest. The ideas presented are amazing. The book is well ahead of its time.
But, these concepts are not very practical. Life is not about finding the perfect path or process to follow; life is about finding the best options considering all of you localized limitations.
I do believe in his statement that given 100K people the freedom to purely think the ground breaking result of just one would provide for the other 99,999. The problem is the number of those remaining people who generate plans only to exploit the others; their tax on the system is much greater than just survival.
I give Bucky a pass on his cultural and scientific fallacies since his perspective is from the 60s. Facts have half lives and when he is misguided is reasonable given the time. I do not believe these issue would alter his final conclusions.
Those final conclusion is ... all of the Earth's population could easily remove the suffering of limited resources and destruction of our environment as long as we all place that as our highest priority.
I applaud this and agree with it. What is missing is how do we influence the world to also believe this? And, should we?

United States on Aug 20, 2016

Wayne Marshall: Very few people have the capacity to highlight our species interdependence on the environment in a simple way. Out of this selective group Buckminster Fuller is the best. In this book, which is a great starting point to understand Bucky's ideas, he guides us on an intellectual journey on the frame of mind needed to help us in the centuries ahead. Especially, with what our modern world calls climate change and technological progress.

Bucky starts out by giving us his version of the great man theory of human development. Then he moves into our present world. Showing us how it developed and the great opportunities we have before us at this very moment and the very real power we have developed to wipe out all life. Bucky, however, is optimistic of our future. He says that we have the power to transform the world right now. With a bit of engineering and the right frame of mind we can re-design our world as if were were living on a spaceship. Where we have to look after everything, from cleaning our water and our air. Look after the sea and life forms that accompany us. Even looking after each other. In this book Bucky lays presents us with a plan that will solve a lot of the...

United States on Jul 13, 2014

Alan V.: This book presents the reader with a set of thinking tools for comprehensive problem-solving. Bucky Fuller asks the reader, "How big can we think?" and then proceeds to show exactly what he means in terms almost anyone can understand.

Spaceship Earth provides a justification, based on Fuller's unique and compelling narrative of the history of western civilization, to reject specialization as harmful to the survival of our species. He reveals the great deception of shortages (energy, jobs, money) as a boldfaced lie by the world's most powerful interests (the "great pirates") and backs his assertion with compelling evidence. By putting boundaries on our thinking, e.g. the common prefaces to verbal expression we often hear, like "I'm not a lawyer," or "I'm not an engineer," that unfairly diminish the value of people's mental capacity to make moral judgments, we facilitate the "divide and conquer" strategy of the great pirates.

Original thinkers do not always command attention. People tend to refer to them as "ahead of their time," or "impractical," or even "dishonest." Amazingly, Buckminster Fuller enjoyed the opposite during his lifetime. A master of many disciplines,...

United States on Jul 06, 2014

Steven Unwin: I was drawn to this book by its wonderful title and the recognition that I'd collected a number of quotations by its author without really knowing anything about him.

I found this book to be something of a curate's egg. In places it uses language to develop ideas in a really clear way. In other parts the language and structure of the description seems to make the ideas rather impenetrable. On balance, however, the ideas win through.

(Having found out a little more about R. Buckminster Fuller I have learned both that this is one of his more accessible volumes, and that his other books may well be worth the challenge.)

It is a book with some wonderful ideas, not least the one captured in the title, that the Earth is a spaceship travelling through space escorted by the Moon and following its mother ship, the Sun. Though written in the 1970 this metaphor, or perhaps its simply a realisation, provides a framework which encompasses many of the problems of sustainable living we are currently grappling with.

Equally the book has some very vivid and enlightening imagery with which to entice the reader to see and begin to challenge their current paradigm. It for...

United Kingdom on Feb 14, 2009