R. Buckminster Fuller
January 10, 1964
Cover Story Excerpt:
He has been called "the first poet of technology," "the greatest living genius of industrial-technical realization in building," "an anticipator of the world to comewhich is different from being a prophet," "a seminal thinker," and "an inspired child." But all these encomiums are fairly recent. For most of his life, R. Buckminster Fuller was known simply as a crackpot....Read the full story