The World Game
A 3 hour monologue of the true game we are in the midst of and the ideas to bring about it's evolution into something greater, into LIVINGRY.
If you want the mind of a genius discussing his greatest and most powerful informational synthesis, then you ought to watch along with me.
Welcome to R. Buckminster Fuller, a friend of ours.
Boston College, 2nd of May 1970
Architect, engineer, geometer, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and the dymaxion car, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time, Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems. For more than five decades he developed pioneering solutions reflecting his commitment to the potential of innovative design to "do more with less" and thereby improve human lives. Now more relevant than ever, this film captures Fuller's ideas and thinking, told in his own words. 80 minutes.
Original Release 1974
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud (1996) is a PBS 'American Masters' TV documentary on the inventor/visionary/thinker R. Buckminster Fuller, produced and directed by four time Academy Award nominees Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon.Fuller is considered by some to be one of the 20th century's most noteworthy, controversial and creative thinkers, since his death in 1983. The film looks at his unconventional life, his innovations, and his radical view of the contemporary world. Best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, Fuller had many other inventions, such as an air-streamed three-wheeled car, and ideas of how to "benefit mankind."The film includes interviews with Philip Johnson, Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Arthur Penn. It is narrated by Morley Safer and Spalding Gray is the voice of Buckminster Fuller. The filmmakers were the first journalists to have open access to the vast collections of Fuller's personal papers. As Fuller was widely documented, the film includes extensive archival footage of Fuller from scores of sources. The film premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996 and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Cultural/Historical Documentary the same year.
Originally broadcast 1996
Buckminster Fuller described himself as a "living verb." Holder of 48 honorary doctorate degrees, born in the 1890s, he was a philosopher and engineer whose experience and global view of humanity and science enabled him to transcend nationalism and temporary current conditions and foresee the direction of major events in the future.He created the geodesic dome to show how much can be accomplished utilizing very little. In this program and series of interviews, he points out how mankind is moving from the tangible world which can be evidenced by sight, sound, smell and touch, into the invisible world of energy, ions, electrical forces, etc., so much so that "99.9999% of what affects our reality will be undetectable by our senses."He states that "man must learn to think for himself, rather than follow blindly what he has been taught." "As the astronauts stated, the words ''up'' and ''down'' have no meaning. The correct words are ''out'' and ''in''. This was confirmed when mankind learned the Earth was round, not flat." He expresses many fascinating theories in these interviews that conditions today confirm. this is exemplary, key watching. find what needs to be done - and DO IT.
Originally broadcast Nineteen Eighty X
Originally broadcast 1974
In a world with compounding problems to which contemporary politics cannot solve, a new cooperative must emerge to redirect our path away from those who trade favor for power and towards a new community of human equality. To the exclusion of none.
