What We Can Learn From Buckminster Fuller  By Tim McKeough Write
to the Author     Sure, he's famous for giving us the geodesic
dome — the super-lightweight building that gets stronger as it
gets bigger — but Buckminster Fuller's legacy extends way beyond
the soccer-ball structure. He was an avid futurist who tinkered
in mathematics, engineering, environmental science,
architecture, and art, all the while keeping notes in a mad-
scientist-style filing system he called the Dymaxion Chronofile.
There was nothing mad, however, about Fuller's objectives: He
just wanted to invent devices that would help humankind and
protect the planet (which he dubbed, no kidding, "Spaceship
Earth").  Here is Fuller's sketch for the US Pavilion at the
1967 International and Universal Exposition in Montreal. It was
one of almost 100 pavilions at Expo 67 — and one of Fuller's
later projects — but he maintained his trademark style, and love
for, geodesic domes. A small train passed through the pavilion,
and the interior was devoted