Utopia or oblivion: The prospects for humanity [Hardcover]

R. Buckminster Fuller (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Allen Lane; First in Great Britain edition (1970)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0713901349
• ISBN-13: 978-0713901344
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,224,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars bucky-my hero and inspiration, April 24, 2001

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jo (toronto. canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity

A very tough read which I go to over and over again, I was inspired and enlightened every step of the way. Bucky's revolutionary ideas are the way of the future. Enable a future. A true visionary he saw the inevitable and being the humanitarian that he was, along with his genius devised ways to achieve world peace, free of hunger. Less is more...doing more with less. The design science revolution. A must read if you are interested in urban planning, and making a difference. Made me want to fulfill his dream. If you build it they will come. He got the buckyball rolling. Great for youth if only he wasn't so darn hard to read. Explains very well the corporate and military structure as well and the evilness implicit in the malthusian robber-baron structure to our economy. I gave it a four star review but conceptually it is 5 star...it being so difficult...I gave it a four. Bucky like McLuhan is more relevant today than in his own time and equally hard to read.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bucky's, How to Save the World through his observations., April 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity (Paperback)

Naval Officer, Engineer and Inventor BF starts with a short review of his past and goes onto to give an explanation of the worlds problems followed by examples on ways to correct them. A tough read, but extremely enlightening.