Guinea Pig B: The 56 Year Experiment [Paperback]

Buckminster Fuller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2004

This slim volume contains some of Buckminster Fuller's most shining observations on his 87 years of living on Spaceship Earth. Includes a full listing of Bucky's patents, honorary doctorates, and published works.

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About the Author

Buckminster Fuller has had a profound influence on our modern society as the godfather of environmental and ecological awareness and practice. A philosopher, inventor, and one of the boldest innovators of the 20th century, he is known as the designer of the Dymaxion House, Car, and Map, the Geodesic Dome, and the World Game. As a mathematician he is recognized as the discoverer of Synergetics, and it was he who coined the term Spaceship Earth. He has written over two dozen books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 56 pages
• Publisher: Critical Path Publishing (March 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097406050X
• ISBN-13: 978-0974060507
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,997 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely timeless, wonderful!!, April 26, 2006

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Esa Juhani Ruoho "Lackluster" (Kontula, Helsinki, Finland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guinea Pig B: The 56 Year Experiment (Paperback)

This book is the one to read if you seriously need an information-overload on positivity, and doing what needs to be done on this Spaceship Earth. Everyone is crew, no-one is passenger. The information contained within this _very_ short book, bears reading every year, every month.
Buckminster Fuller should be so much more appreciated than what he was while he lived, but more so, what is the point of being a fan, if one isn't finding what one can do based on one's own experience, and then doing it. Find what needs to be done, and do it!
I wish I could send this book to everyone I know and have them read it, re-read it, and re-re-read it, just to make sure the information contained here-in gets absorbed into one's mind also. It is not mere rational information, this is what he came up out of intuitive, experience-based thinking, using the right hemisphere instead of the left-hemisphere.
Let there be many more Guinea Pigs between here, and the forced re-definition of utopia.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mind opener, December 22, 2010

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Fernando Caceres (Guatemala, Guatemala) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guinea Pig B: The 56 Year Experiment (Paperback)

Bucky is a Mind Opener, cause you can see that a lot of things that today we do, don't have to be that way and we can improve our selfes as humans with a benefit to the planet. The abundance mentality, that's a huge step...