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A Buckminster Fuller-designed geodesic dome at the 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or “Expo 67.” Michael Rougier—Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagesBuckminster Fuller Forever: Salute to an American Visionary “I did not set out to design a geodesic dome,” he once said. “I set out to discover the principles operative in Universe. For all I knew, this could have led to a pair of flying slippers.” via LIFE: Pesco on Buckminster Fuller David Pescovitz is co-editor/partner at Boing Boing and a research director at Institute for the Future.

A Buckminster Fuller-designed geodesic dome at the 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or “Expo 67.”

Michael Rougier—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Buckminster Fuller Forever: Salute to an American Visionary

“I did not set out to design a geodesic dome,” he once said. “I set out to discover the principles operative in Universe. For all I knew, this could have led to a pair of flying slippers.”

via LIFE: Pesco on Buckminster Fuller

David Pescovitz is co-editor/partner at Boing Boing and a research director at Institute for the Future.

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