He came in during world war one, and he was having very profound insight into particularly technology. He realized its first utilized for weaponry so that you could dominate. And the british empire was the first global empire. They actually the empire on which the sun never set,. because they controlled all of the main shipping arteries. A tragedy struck is his daughter. She contracted spiral menangitis and poleo and died at age four. It really profoundly impacted him. His later writings talk about howthi survival of the fittest, malthusian, a approach to the planet was putting technology first as weaponryso that you can dominate. But there was an evolution of it. The dim
In this episode, we chat with inventor, writer, producer, and educator Kurt Przybilla on American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, critic of work, and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller.
Kurt Przybilla invented Tetra Tops, the world’s first spinning top with more than one axis of spin, which were inspired by the works of Buckminster Fuller and have been featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Baby Einstein, Child and Discover Magazine, as well as at the Smithsonian Institute. He is co-creator, writer and producer of the Molecularium Project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he has produced and co-written Molecules to the MAX!, a 3D animated film for Giant Screen IMAX theaters, Molecularium, an award winning digital dome feature, and NanoSpace, an game-based online theme park to teach kids about atoms and molecules.
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Hilaritas Podcast
Host/Producer Mike Gathers
Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves
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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller.