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Buckminster Fuller In 3 Minutes

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A short review of contributions from Buckminster Fuller.

Adapted from the biography published by the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

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Technology & Design
How Peter Thiel Is Destroying Democracy
Should We Destroy the Machines?
How to Kill People and Get Away With It *using AI* (W/ Antony Lowenstein)
The Great Transition, 2025-2050
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Tests Military Tech on Palestinians (2025)
AI Fight: the Working Class Is at a Crossroads W/ Prof. Wolff
AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders
How China Launched a New Industrial Revolution
12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home
Why Mushrooms Are Starting To Replace Everything
The Shipping Container That Might Replace Solar Farms
Ex-google Exec (WARNING): the Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven!
24 Hours In an Illegal, Car-free Community
If You Write with AI, You're Not a Writer and Other Lies
Artificial Creativity: Has AI Stolen Our Creative Soul?
Our Coming Cyberpunk Dictatorship (Snow Crash)
Is AI Art Trained on Stolen Art or Is It Fair Use?
This Speech Accidentally Exposed the Truth about the US
Chris Hedges: The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship
How AI Images Reshape Our Understanding of the World
How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows | Climate Town
Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph | Ep 54 | Feb 9th 2025
Capitalism Is Over: What's Next Is Worse
DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Rule America
Tech CEOs Admit They Want AI Monopoly: US Plans to Block China's Competition & 'Steal' Engineers
Big Tech in Panic Mode... Did DeepSeek R1 Just Pop the AI Bubble?
Why Tech Won't Save Us
How Capitalism Becomes Feudalism (Severance and Technofeudalism)
What the News Won't Tell You about Climate Change | Hannah Ritchie, PhD
Power 2 the People (2013)
Smartphones vs. Smart Kids: Heading Off Disaster in Teen Mental Health | Jonathan Haidt
I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine
AI Riots vs "Moore's Law for Everything" by Sam Altman
How do we get to UBI and Post-Labor Economics? Decentralized Ownership: the New Social Contract!
Inspiring Couple Build the Sustainable Home of Their Dreams (From Start to Finish)
The Amazing Community Making Beautiful Compost from City Food Waste | Ben & bEartha (2023)
Cancel The Apocalypse: Here are 41 Films to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Alter Nativas: Building Possible Futures (2023)
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust
2040: Join The Regeneration (trailer)
Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (2015)
The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)
Money & Life (2013)
Feeding Ourselves (2017)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Renewables Can't Power Capitalism, But They Can Power Ecosocialism
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)
Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)
Inner Climate Change: The Change Starts Within You (2020)
Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food-Forest Coliving Agritopia (2021)
The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture (2020)
Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)
The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)
Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (2008)
What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)
India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)
Fantastic Fungi (2019) ($5)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Patron Documentaries
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
We Are Many (2020)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Blood and Oil (2008)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Affluenza (1997)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
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