Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of the 20th century. As an architect, engineer, entrepreneur, and poet, he was a quintessentially American self-made man. But he was also an outsider: a technologist with a poet's imagination who already developed theories of environmental control in the thirties (-more with less-) and who anticipated the globalization of our planet (-think global--act local-). In light of the reawakening interest in his works and thoughts, and of their growing importance for our technological world, it is time for a...