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Synopsis
In this essay on man Mr. Fuller expresses what may well be his penultimate view of the human condition. Here, in a mood at once philosophical and involved, Mr. Fuller traces manā s intellectual evolution and weighs his capability for survival on this magnificent craft, this Spaceship Earth, this superbly designed sphere of almost negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Mr. Fuller is optimistic that man will survive and, through research and development and increased industrialization, generate wealth so rapidly that he can do very great things. But, he notes, there must be an enormous educational task successfully accomplished right now to convert manā s tenĀdency toward oblivion into a realization of his potential, to a universe-exploring advantage from this Spaceship Earth.
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It has been noted that Mr. Fuller spins ideas in clusters, and clusters of his ideas generate still other clusters. The concept “spaceship earthā is Mr. Fullerā s, and though used by Barbara Ward as the title of a work of her own the idea was acknowledged by her there as deriving from Mr. Fuller. The brilliant syntheses of some fundamental Fuller principles given here makes of this book a microcosm of the Fuller system.
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R. Buckminster Fuller has been a Research Professor at Southern Illinois University since 1959. In 1968 the Board of Trustees appointed him University Professor, the second faculty member so honored in the University’s history.
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
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E. P. Dutton, New York, NY, 1971
ISBN 10: 0525474331
ISBN 13: 9780525474333
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 2nd Printing. This is a trade sized paperback book. The book isin Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean, bright condition , though there is some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth is a short book by R. Buckminster Fuller, first published in 1969, following an address with a similar title given to the 50th annual convention of the American Planners Association in the Shoreham Hotel, Washington D. C. , on 16 October 1967. The book relates Earth to a spaceship flying through space. Noting the lack of any user manual to help Earthians steward this ship, Fuller offers some reflections, prognostications, and guidance, based on contemporary concepts of linked relationships, that may help in the understanding, management, sustainment, and creation of a plan to preserve spaceship earth for the future of humanity. The spaceship has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied. " (from Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # A52746
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OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH.
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DUTTON AND CO., USA, 1978
ISBN 10: 0525474331
ISBN 13: 9780525474333
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