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Governments therefore channeled all technological talent and all natural resources into "weaponry," Fuller claimed. But the art of "weaponry" furthered the art of "livingry" by giving rise to the invention of the airplane and the improvement of mass-production techniques...
Politicians, however, still find the improvement of "weaponry" the path of least resistance. Architects, and particularly architectural students, Fuller warned, must assume leadership in the development of an efficient and economical science of "livingry...
Noting that architecture brings together many of the artistic, scientific, and technological fields, Fuller remarked that "science paces technology, technology paces industry, industry paces economics, and economics paces politics. Quite clearly, then, political leaders are at the tall end of affairs. And for man to ask change of political leaders is like asking the cow's tall to redesign...
...Fuller proposed that universities allow their students an increasing amount of time for charting the world's resources and developing the necessary mathematics for the purpose of "increasing man's chance to live...
Originator of the geodesic dome and the mass-produceable Dymaxion house, Fuller bases his more efficient architecture on his discovery that the tetrahedron (a pyramid composed of four triangles) has extraordinarily great synergetic force. If one takes six rods and constructs them into a tetrahedron, the strength of the whole is far greater than the sum of the strength of its parts...