At 06:35 PM 3/26/2010, Tom Buese wrote: >Mr. BZ-what would Buckminister say? Mr. Fuller said [roughly] that since transportation speed had been increasing by an order of magnitude on an exponential curve, we should be able to travel around the world in ten minutes by this time last year, and implant our consciousnesses into various machinery so as to explore difficult habitats etc. Ray Kurzweil has recently taken up the latter banner, with extra frosting. I was a great fan of his until I tried to read his book on his tensegrity-based mathematics (I think) and concluded that the emperor had lost his clothes somewhere along the way. Felt the same way about Thomas Merton -- seemed like both of them were simply inventing lots of important-sounding words and not defining them, and getting away with murder. Yrs, D Sure would like to try one of those Dymaxion cars, though. The lightweight houses not so much. |
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