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"Critical Path is a state-of-the-art summary of human evolution." --Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy
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R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist. Perhaps best remembered for the Geodesic Dome and the term "Spaceship Earth," his work and his writings have had a profound impact on modern life and thought.
Critical Path is Fuller's master work--the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern--as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication in 1981. Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current situation—at the limits of the planet's natural resources and facing political, economic, environmental, and ethical crises.
The crowning achievement of an extraordinary career, Critical Path offers the reader the excitement of understanding the essential dilemmas of our time and how responsible citizens can rise to meet this ultimate challenge to our future.
Critical Path is Fuller's master work--the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern--as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication in 1981. Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current situation—at the limits of the planet's natural resources and facing political, economic, environmental, and ethical crises.
The crowning achievement of an extraordinary career, Critical Path offers the reader the excitement of understanding the essential dilemmas of our time and how responsible citizens can rise to meet this ultimate challenge to our future.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book is incredible, but not for the dumbed down masses!,
By margaritaking "brdavis" (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Critical Path (Paperback)
This book has some incredible ideas. Granted it is hard to read and probably not for the masses. Bucky has his own style of writing and many get turned off by it. But what he has to say does not fit into the normal speech/writing patterns of today's society. His views on the world are one-of-a-kind. Putrid? Not hardly. Those who rate this low cannot understand his message. I also would not recommend this as an intro to his thoughts. Try "Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work"by Lloyd Steven Sieden, Norman Cousins for some insight on him, or check out the Buckminster Fuller Institute which has many of his books online.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE twenty-first century survival manual,
By A Customer
This review is from: Critical Path (Paperback)
I first stumbled across this title in the small booklet of a Sting CD, if you can believe that (don't forget Sting was a high school English teacher before his "white reggae" stardom.) This is THE twenty-first century survival manual if you ask me. It has everything: green politics, scientific method, soul mechanics, management poetry, global strategies, new age without the sewage, "righteous" criticism, fraternity, and enough flint to provoke a four-alarm fire in your nascent conscience, with an emphasis on the science. A crunchy read.(Part of my "starter's kit" along with everything ever written by C. Wright Mills, Alvin Toffler, Fritjof Capra, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Campbell, John Kenneth Galbraith, Gaston Bachelard, Abraham Maslow, Michel Foucault, and Bertrand Russell)
3.0 out of 5 stars
WOW!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Critical Path (Paperback)
What can I say. If you have never read Bucky Fuller, DO NOT start with this one. That was my mistake. It was a good technical manual of his concepts of this spaceship earth and his idea on ecologically sound architecure. However, it gets convoluted and overly technical. I tell you what! If you want to read a book that can make you feel ignorant no matter how eductated you are, this is the book for you. Fuller was an amazing man and great thinker, but it would be best to start out with something a little less technical.
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