Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

This biography is a provocative and inspiring depiction of a relentless, determined, American visionary. With meticulous research, the fascinating friends, coworkers, and colleagues of “Bucky” come into view. All in all, a great book for imagining the design of a less linear world.

I was spellbound from page one.Too often I find myself looking at my hero’s and villains in black and white. RBF was one such hero of mine.This book was invaluable in reminding me of nuance in all lives, and to not build pedestals or pits.I came away with a deeper appreciation of the man and his achievements in the face of being human.

Is a tell all book. Interesting to see what it takes to leave a legacy

Enamored by Fuller as a young person who witnessed one of his extraordinary talks given at 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, visiting the Geodesic Dome at Expo 67 and even another one at the botanical gardens of Des Moines Iowa, I was eager to read this account of his life. Loved by celebrities and artists and followed by mathematicians and structural engineers, it seems that he was at the same time an impresario (for himself) and prescient. His evolution of the dome turned out in its most lasting form as the panels of the modern soccer ball which more closely replicated a true sphere than prior models. Physical chemists found that carbon molecules could assume this form naturally and won a Noble Prize for Buckyballs. This history is intensely interesting, but it needs a glossary as so many people are cited early on in the writing and then later so that in reading one is at a loss for their identity. Fuller had fundamental insights into his own country's and the world's peril whatever the fate of his striking but poorly space occupying domes that commonly leaked.

The most comprehensive book, ever written on R. Buckminster Fuller. It shows my former mentor and instructor with all his warts and foibles. He was just a man, but what a man! He taught me how to think. Bucky mentored me at Southern Illinois University back in the sixties. Alec hits another one out of the park! Five big stars, my friend! Richard J. Cronborg, author of "I TRIED".