Buckminster Fuller: The Man Who Saw The Future | Random Thursday

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Buckminster Fuller wasn't the massive success that he wanted to be, but he became a defining influence on the engineering, architecture, and design that shapes our world today.

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Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion house was designed to be a machine that works around you.

It featured some of the same design elements that made his famous geodesic domes so sturdy, plus it featured smart home features long before smart homes were a thing.


LINKS LINKS LINKS:

CNET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Tawv4ImNw

Dymaxion House Short Doc (1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx5VJ1yd3HQ

Ford Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcB9JPlgaoM

CBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0_DKeFfObI

Reflections: R. Buckminster Fuller (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhCp0BIhUw&t=2148s