…patterning or activity of the whole cosmos. The key idea here is pattern. Let's suppose I'm going to borrow a metaphor from Buckminster Fuller. Suppose we have a rope and one section of this rope is made of Manila Hemp, the next section is cotton, the…

…in a universe where directions are all relative and you become a being capable of existing in non solidity. And that's why Buckminster Fuller you know believed that all techniques and really all culture came from the sea. The men who first learned to sail…

…patterning or activity of the whole cosmos. The key idea here is pattern. Let's suppose I'm going to borrow a metaphor from Buckminster Fuller suppose we have a rope and one section of this rope is made of Manila Hemp the next section is cotton, the…

…that democracy is always right but for the wrong reasons, because there is operating in a democracy the principle that Buckminster Fuller calls synergy, and synergy is the intelligence of a highly complex system, the nature of which is always unknown to…

…arising. Now then, a second difficulty arises in this which requires that I bring in some ideas first of all from Buckminster Fuller, the principal notion of Buckminster Fuller's thought and if you don't know this name, Buckminster Fuller is what I would…

…ideas first of all from Buckminster Fuller, the principal notion of Buckminster Fuller's thought and if you don't know this name, Buckminster Fuller is what I would call a philosophical engineer, a man who is one of the most creative minds in the modern…

…we call the mind. Through literature, through speech, through radio and television communication, the noosphere is slowly realized. So Buckminster Fuller is really talking about the same thing. The noosphere is the network of communication set up by technology.…

…thought today of a man called Robert Theobald, who sort of ties in with the general picture of people like McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller in having very far out thoughts and very adventurous thoughts about what we should do about money. But he is in the…

…patterning or activity of the whole cosmos. The key idea here is pattern. Let's suppose I'm going to borrow a metaphor from Buckminster Fuller. Suppose we have a rope and one section of this rope is made of Manila Hemp, the next section is cotton, the…

…system is doing, all the kinds of messages that are running through it it is these messages that constitute the mind. And so this is what Buckminster Fuller means when he talks about synergy: s y n e r g y s y n e r g y means the from the Greek…

…must run on time. And this network of air communications is joining every city in the world together so that by 1968, according to Buckminster Fuller we would have a one town world. Figure it if it takes you an hour to get from here to New York in a…

…when you add up a line of figures. Uh I personally have got an adding machine and I don't bother with this anymore, but Buckminster Fuller was telling me the other day that he can read a line of figures like you read a line of print, and he can…

…and almost a little contradictory, but nevertheless there it is. The space is, after all not nothing. I had an argument with Buckminster Fuller about this and he had to grant me that I was theoretically correct, because he said: so far as I'm concerned…

…and almost a little contradictory, but nevertheless there it is. The space is, after all not nothing. I had an argument with Buckminster Fuller about this and he had to grant me that I was theoretically correct, because he said: so far as I'm concerned…