"It is to be noted that the papers collected in this volume are based on talks given by Fuller over the past several years to specialized academic or professional groups, or on articles prepared for specialized journals." --Robert W.Marks (from the Introduction, US pbk, 1969).

Introduction by Robert W.Marks;

"A Citizen of the 21st Century Looks Back" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(1 April 1967... originally published as "Man with a Chronofile" in Saturday Review ),

"The Music of the New Life" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(10 December 1964... Keynote address at the National Conference on the Uses of Educational Media in the Teaching of Music, under joint auspices of the U.S. Office of Education and the Music Educators National Conference, Washington, D.C. Parts I and II published in Music Educators Journal , April-May and June-July 1966),

"Prevailing Conditions in the Arts" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(10 October 1964... "Prevailing Conditions in the Arts in Contemporary Society" address delivered at a plenary session of the New York University Seminar on Elementary and Secondary School Education in the Visual Arts),

"Keynote Address at Vision 65" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(21 October 1965... Keynote Address at Vision 65, World Congress on New Challenges to Human Communications, inaugural congress of the International Center for Communications Arts and Sciences... sponsored by the International Center for the Typographic Arts in cooperation with Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois),

"Summary Address at Vision 65" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(23 October 1965... see above),

"The World Game -- How to Make the World Work" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(1967... first published in this book),

"Geosocial Revolution" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(1965... first published in this book),

"How to Maintain Man as a Success in Universe" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(18-19 March 1965... Combination of address to Brookings Institution, U.S. Department of Labor Seminar on Manpower Policy Program and to the President's Committee on Technology at the U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C.),

"Utopia or Oblivion" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(1964... first published in this book),

"Curricula and the Design Initiative" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(19 February 1965... "A Challenge to More Conscious Participation in Our Evolving Universe"... Transcription of a day of discussion between Fuller and the American Association of University Women program staff members)

"Design Strategy" by R.Buckminster Fuller
(1966... Statement to a leading figure in the world building industry)

Epilogue by R.Buckminster Fuller
(1969... first published in this book)

Bibliography

"Here is a provocative and challenging blueprint for the future by one of the world's leading philosopher-scientists. The thesis: mankind has, perhaps for the first time, the prospect of a world of maximum abundance -- imminent Utopia. Man will be able to solve all the physical problems of his existence because the real wealth of the world is information and energy. And these are increasing without forseeable limit.

"However, we have acquired the means of total destruction of the human race, too. The threat of nuclear holocaust is very real. Obsolete concerns with political systems, the pressures of unnecessary poverty, with its attendant riots and wars, can easily trigger oblivion.

"The alternatives today are abundance for all or survival for none. Time has run out on inertia. Now is the time for changes -- and here is how they can be made!" [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1969]

"Fuller demonstrates that humans now have the technological capacity to provide successful living for all, provided we adopt a 'Spaceship Earth' viewpoint. Education is key to adopting this viewpoint. This book captures his education philosophy by covering the themes of Spaceship Earth, doing more with less, the false assumptions of Malthusian economics, and the World Game, among others." [Buckminster Fuller Institute bumpf]

"Essential reading." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).

Highly recommended.