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Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier cover image

Greg Watson on Buckminster Fuller, the World Grid and World Game

Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier

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Are We on a Spherical Plane?

Bucky's quest reminds me a lot of the dawn of everything where they're questioning sort of a lot of assumptions that we make about civilization, governance and how early communities actually were governed. Bucky's energetics called the question the science and mathematics that we've come to assume underlies reality. He thought that if we could start to talk more in ways that suggest that we are living on a sphere, it would help us again sort of operationally in terms of understanding how system systems really do work.

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