R. Buckminster Fuller
Inventor, Mathematician, Philosopher, Architect,
Engineer
1895-1983
"There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can,so many people don't have enough."
-R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller, known by his friends as "Bucky", was undeniably one of the key innovators in the 20th century. He is known as a philosopher, thinker, visionary, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet, cosmologist, and more.
Buckminster Fuller was probably one of the first futurists and global thinkers. He is the one who coined the term "Spaceship Earth", and his work has inspired and paved the way for many who came after him. He is famous for using the now-famous phrase "doing more with less."
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R. Buckminster Fuller was born in Milton, Massachusetts and graduated from Milton Academy. He was later thrown out of Harvard University for "irresponsibility and lack of interest". In Buckminster Fuller's world, cars had three wheels, houses were to be delivered by blimps, and cities were to be built inside floating spheres. He is famous as the inventor of the geodesic dome, the only structure that actually gets stronger as it gets larger.