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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as

It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.

R. Buckminster Fuller
War, Technology, Selfishness
"Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Blessed, Thinking, Technology

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology, Humanity, Reason

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology, Men, Computer
R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.83, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Successful, Technology, Years

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology, Pollution, Resources
As quoted in "The View from the Year 2000" by Barry Farrell in LIFE magazine, February 26, 1971.

A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology, Self, Survival
R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.53, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology, Men, Waiting
1964 On his innovative geodesic domes. In Time, 10 Jun.

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology, Space, Challenges

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology, Genius, Born
"The Schoolhouse: Where Dreams Go to Die?" by Arnold Dodge, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2013.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Party, Technology, Political

The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Children, New Relationship, Technology
"Connecting All The Dots" by Parag, Ayesha Khanna, bigthink.com.

What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Taken, Humble, Technology
R. Buckminster Fuller (1973). “Earth, Inc.”, p.20, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology, Long, Pace
"Beyond Left & Right: Radical Thought for Our Times". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, p. 368, "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), 1968.

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