Critical Path (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: History, Philosophy or philosophers, Economics, Progress, Biography, Inventions or inventors, Technology, Theology, Experiments, Machinery
Form and Content
At the age of eighty-five, R. Buckminster Fuller, one of the best-known scientist-engineers of the twentieth century, wrote Critical Path, a book ranging far beyond science and technology into the realm of history and autobiography, philosophy and economics, and, at times, even theology. It describes his personal commitment, made in 1927, to use himself as a “scientific guinea pig . . . in a lifelong experiment” in order to discover what one individual, without money or university degree, could accomplish to improve the quality of life for all...
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