I inspired a generation, who discovered my work in the 1970s and made me a pop culture phenom.
“Spaceship Earth”
“Synergenics”
“Sustainability”
“Ephemeralization” (later called “recycling”)
I coined these words when baby boomers were just glints in their parent’s eyes. I wasn’t a politician or spiritual guru. I can best be described as a visionary/engineer/architect most famous for a particular structure I invented.
Boomers made many of my 30 books best-sellers. A lot of counterculture communities regarded me as their “father.”
Not every idea worked. The Dymaxion Car and Dymaxion House didn’t make it beyond a prototype. Dymaxion Sleep, where I dozed off only two hours a day for two years was fine for me. I dropped it because my colleagues couldn’t keep pace. It would have unleashed incredible productivity, but was never a popular practice.
I said:
~Spaceship Earth did not come with an instruction manual.
~I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.
~Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in the Universe.
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This Day in Baby Boomer Television History
1978 : The plane! The plane! “Fantasy Island” starring Ricardo Montalban debuts.
1973 : “Barnaby Jones” premieres.
1965 : The Who’s first TV appearance.
1956 : Elvis Presley’s first TV appearance.
1953 : J. Fred Muggs joins the “Today Show.”
With co-host Dave Garroway
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Our Celebrity
There are over 500,000 geodesic domes in the world
Source:
http://www.babyboomerdaily.com/2013/01/28/baby-boomer-celebrity-who-am-i-51/