Date:         Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:58:56 -0400
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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.