When he was working at fortune magazine in 19 forty the war had already begun in europe, but he a was showing how the planet was connected. He also kept developing his dimaxian map, and in 19 forty three it was published in life magazine with a there was a pull out, color cardboard version of the map that you could assemble for yourself. And ah, this concept tan carried through when he was doing, when the us. Did enter the war, actually, the us. War bureau hired fuller on broughth. The really big thing about the damaxian map which changed is not the icosahedron that it later became, the 20 sided shape.
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.