Nine Chains to the MoonEstate of R. Buckminster Fuller, 1 ene 2000 - 346 páginas The title derives from a statistical cartoon: “If … all of the people of the world were to stand upon one another’s shoulders, they would make nine complete chains between the earth and the moon. If it is not so far to the moon, then it is not so far to the limits—whatever, whenever or wherever they may be.” This is Fuller’s first book and one of the few he wrote as a book and not as a composite of articles, transcripts, or letters. Many of his original and lifelong metaphors and strategies were introduced in this volume. A projected final chapter, “From Bibble to Bible to Babble,” was rejected by the publishers because its concrete poetry format was deemed too radical for inclusion in a trade book. The end papers anticipate the Dymaxion airocean world map. There are five appendices documenting Fuller’s virtuosity in large patterns: (1) on the chronology of scientific events from the ancient world to 1936; (2) coincidence of U.S. population centers with isotherm of 32° F; (3) U.S. to become world’s greatest exporter; (4) world copper production and consumption; and (5) growth of U.S. industry correlated with inventions. Description by Ed Applewhite, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller |
Índice
Exit Rust | 169 |
Ford Consolidates the Scientific Emergence | 180 |
Accounting Subterfuges of Capitals Bankruptcy | 197 |
Death of the Ware houseCommerce City | 204 |
Emergence Through Emergency | 215 |
Trick Balance Sheet | 222 |
Booms Boomerang | 226 |
Introducing the Mechanical Stock Exchange | 230 |
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5 | 30 |
18 30 | 48 |
The 2000Year Streamlining of Society | 125 |
The Zero Hour | 129 |
Baby Industry Is Kidnapped | 136 |
Longing Crosses the | 143 |
Machinery Follows Longing and Carves a Trend Pattern | 150 |
The Warehouse Era | 156 |
Not in Vain Did They Die | 163 |
True Credit Amplification | 238 |
The Scientific Segregation of Scarcity and Plenitude | 241 |
Universal Language | 252 |
Ephemeralization | 256 |
Science and Industry Take Off as the Boys Get Down to Business | 260 |
Flimsy Fabric of the Abstract Monopolies | 271 |
Throwing in the Patented Sponge | 275 |
ScrapCoup dÉtat of the Random Element | 286 |
Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe | 293 |
125 | 304 |
The Nine Chains | 323 |
Jones and the Xian | 327 |
150 | 329 |
Resolved to Resolve | 333 |
Anthem | 342 |
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Nine Chains to the Moon: An Adventure Story of Thought Richard Buckminster Fuller Vista previa restringida - 2019 |