"Earth, Inc." by R.Buckminster Fuller
(originally published by the Fuller Research Foundation, New York, 1947. This item should be read in conjunction with the chart entitled 'Profile of the Industrial Revolution'... *note: original chart of 1943 corrected to 1970 in 1972...
reissued in the collection The Buckminster Fuller Reader edited by James Meller, 1970.)

"The Leonardo Type" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(originally published as "The Historical Philosophic Background" by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, 1969, as Part Two of Planetary Planning . This essay presents us with the history of the 'God-Kings', a supplement to his history of the 'Great Pirates'.)

"Earthians' Critical Moment" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(originally appeared in the New York Times )

"Revolution In Wombland" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(originally appeared as part 1 of the introduction to Gene Youngblood's Expanded Cinema )

"Inexorable Evolution and Human Ecology" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(originally appeared as part 2 of the introduction to Gene Youngblood's Expanded Cinema )

"Vertical Is To Live -- Horizontal Is To Die" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(originally appeared in The American Scholar , Vol.39, No.1, Winter 1969-70)

"Go In To Go Out" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(originally appeared in World , 18 July 1972)

"Telegram to Senator Edmund Muskie" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(originally appeared in the New York Times )

"Ten Proposals For Improving The World" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(originally appeared in the New York Times )

"This book collects some of R.Buckminster Fuller's most important recent writings on the subject of spaceship Earth: the big, interconnected, total system that is 'the only one we've got'. These articles stress the need for considering our planet as a whole, rather than breaking it into parts -- as most of us continue to do. This theme is crucial to the thinking of Bucky Fuller, who, in addition to his many other appellations, has been called the 'godfather' of the Whole Earth Catalog ." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1973]

"Humanity is acquiring the right technology for all the wrong reasons -- and only as driven by looming wars and the fear of being annihilated by the enemy. Humanity could acquire the technology for the purpose of total success and enduring peace. We say we cannot afford it in peace times, but technology...not only pays for itself but [leads] inadvertently to the acquisition of greater wealth." --R.Buckminster Fuller (from "Earthians' Critical Moment")

"An interesting collection of philosophic musings. Insightful view of a great mind at work. Fuller's 12-period world history is especially fascinating." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1997).

Highly recommended.