Index
1 Advertising, 51, 75
2Airplane, x, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xxi, xxiv-xxv, 31,32
3Alexander the Great, 65
4Aluminum, 31, 79
5Apollo Project, xiii
6Artifacts, x, xi, xv, 4--5, 12, 86
7Atomic bomb, ix, xxi, 3, 39, 41--42, 45, 46, 48--50, 53--54, 83, 90
8Atomic energy, 5, 44--45
9Automobile, xviii, 31, 43, 55, 89
10Balance-of-trade accounting, xxi, 29-30
11Bankruptcy, 27, 33, 47-48, 52, 54, 58, 74
12Banks: Banking, 25, 26, 73, 91 failures of, 46-48,53 Federal Reserve, 40, 69 industrialization and, 43, 46-48, 53
13savings, 63, 67, 69, 74-75
14Behind-the-scenes power structure. See: Grunch of Giants; Human power structures
15Bell, Alexander Graham, 42
16Birth rates, ix
17Bonds, interest-bearing, 43,46, 59-60, 66, 67, 68, 73, 74
18Brain & mind, 9, 12-13, 84, 85
19British Empire, 29,48
20Building industry, xi, xv, xvi, xvii, xi, 42
21See also: Housing industry
22Capitalism
2324banking and, 43, 46-48, 57-59, 65-76 early forms of, 25,26-27,30 lawyer, 36-37,50,82 post-World-War-II, 2, 38-42, 48, 52-54
25risktaking in, 26,27, 36, 57-59, 60, 74, 82
26shift to ‘‘know-how,’’ 78
27See also: Banks; Corporations; Landownership
28Carter, Jimmy, 38
29CIA, 49, 53
30Communication, xix, xxi, 11, 85
31Communism vs capitalism, 3, 82
32Computer, ix, xix, 5, 32, 33, 41, 80,81,90
33Copper, 25, 42, 46
34Corporations
35as nonphysical, 18, 28, 29, 34, 37-38, 39-41, 57, 78, 81, 82
36economic games of, 57-60, 63, 67-76, 77-78, 81, 82
37granted privileges of, 29 industrial games of, 55-57 mergers & acquisitions of, 33, 37-38
38propaganda of, 57
39royal sanction of, 26
4041supranational, xxi, 1-2, 17, 34, 35-36, 40-41, 44-45, 52- 54, 80-81,82
42See also: Capitalism; Grunch of Giants; Profit; Stockholder; Stocks
43Critical Path, xxiii, 48, 68, 77, 80, 85, 86, 87,91
44Critical path, 86, 87
45Critical proximity, 15
46Cross-breeding, 11,39
47Darwin, Charles, 7
48David vs Goliath story, 17, 19, 22, 82
49Design (of humans), xxiii, 13, 84
50Design (of planet), 84
51Design (of Universe), 8, 9, 13, 84, 90
52Design science (revolution), 15- 16, 80, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88-90
53Direct experience, 8, 9, 13, 65, 88
54See also: Experiment
55DNA-RNA, xxiii, 7, 11,84
56Drake, Sir Francis, 28
57Dwelling machine, xii, xv-xvii, 79
58Dymaxion Bathroom, xii
59Dymaxion Car, xiii, 64-65
60Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 79
61Dymaxion House, xii
62Dymaxion Sky-Ocean Map, xii
63Earth, as sphere, 27, 84
64Eastbound man: Westbound man, 21, 22,24,27
65Ecology, xxvi, 7-8, 84
66Edison, Thomas Alva, 42,43
67Education, 21
68Einstein’s equation: E = Me2, xxii, xxvi
69Eisenhower, Dwight D., 40-41
70Electric utilities, 30, 31, 43-44, 45,46, 47, 80
71Emergence through emergency, xv
72Energy accounting, xi, 41-42, 44-45, 46, 89-90
73See also: Petroleum
74Environment: Altering the environment, 7, 8-9, 11-12, 14, 16, 84-90
75Ephemeralization, x, xix, 5, 31- 32, 39, 43, 44, 67, 78-79, 80, 86
7677See also: Performance per weight
78Evolution, 13 cosmic, xxiii, 76, 84-85 class-one vs class-two, xix, xxiii, xxiv, 86-88 critical moment in, xxi
79Experiment (undertaken by individual), xxiv, 81
80Farms: Farming, 20,47 Food, xxi, 2, 3, 78 Ford, Henry, 55-56 4D monograph, xv Fourteenth Amendment, 28-29 Frequency in pure principle, 11, 15
81Fuller, R. Buckminster at birth (1895), 66 marriage (1917). 63 U.S. Navy (1917), 63 crisis of 1927, 8 commitment of 1927, 86, 87 4D monograph, xv Dymaxion House, xii, xvi Dymaxion Car, xiii, 64, 65 Dymaxion Bathroom, xii, xiv Nine Chains to the Moon, xiii Eco-Transformation Charts, xiii
8283Dymaxion Deployment Unit, 79
84Phelps Dodge Company, xiv on Fortune staff, xii, xvi Fuller House Company, xvii Dymaxion Sky-Ocean Map, xii book shelves, xiv Octet truss, xiv geodesic domes, xiii, 32,64
85rowing needle, xiv
8687World Resources Inventory, 86 World Game, xii
88Tensegrity projects, xi Synergetics, xii, xiv, 91 Philadelphia archives of, xi annual costs of, 64
89See also: Critical Path; Self-discipline
90‘‘General Houses,’’ xvi
91Generalized principles, xxiii, 9, 12, 13,81,83, 84, 85,90
92Geodesic dome, xiii, 32, 64
93Gestation rate, xv, xvi, xvii, 51, 85,86, 87,90
94Giamatti, A. Bartlett, 51
95Giants, 14, 17, 18-26,28,81-82
96God, 20, 21,9 1
97Gold, 25, 29, 36, 69, 70
98Good & bad, xx
99Gravity, xxiii, 13, 84
100Grunch of Giants, 1, 2, 3, 17, 18, 29, 33, 36-39, 40-41, 48, 51- 52, 57, 80-81,82,91
101102See also: Human power structures
103Heyerdahl, Thor, 21
104Horse, 7
105Horsemen, 19-21,22-23,88
106Housing industry, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, 78
107Human individual, xxii
108God and, 91
109initiative & drives of, xxiii, 10,
11085, 86, 90
111integrity of, 11
112mobility of, 78
113114success of, xx, 18-19, 80, 81, 85-86, 87-88, 90
115vs great nations & corporations, 18
116Human power structures and military supremacy, 41- 42, 44-46, 52-54,91 networking and, xxiii, 89 origin of, 19-23 political-corporate authority as, 52, 57-59, 80-81, 82, 83, 89,91 selfishness of, xxii-xxiii, 79 See also: Grunch of Giants
117Human thought, xxii, 84
118Human tolerance limits, 13, 84- 85, 87
119Humans
120121as decision-makers, 50 born helpless, 10 extinction of, ix, 45, 75, 87, 88, 91
122function of, as information gatherers & problem-solvers, x, xxiv-xxvi, 9, 10, 11, 85
123in Universe, 8, 12, 84-85 integration of, x, xix, xxii, 50, 75-76, 86, 89
124selfish, x, 79,90 tool complexes of, 15, 62-63 See also: Design (of humans) Humanity in crisis, x, xxviii, 42, 45, 75-76, 87, 90, 91
125Humanity’s option to ‘‘make it,’’ ix, x, xxvii, 3, 5, 6, 41, 76, 80, 83, 86-88, 90,91
126Inbreeding, 7, 13 Industrialization, 2,37-38,55-56 Information gathering, xxiv-xxvi, xxvii, 16
127Insurance companies, 60, 63, 64, 65-67,70,71
128Interest, 25,63,64,74-75 Invention. See: Artifacts
129Invisible: Invisibility
130131in metallurgy, chemistry, electronics, xvii, 1,35,40-41, 83
132of corporate conglomerates, 17, 18, 35-36, 38, 39, 40-41, 51-52, 57, 80, 82
133of technological gains, xx, xxviii, 5, 86
134of utilities, 44--45
135warfare, 39
136See also: Ephemeralization;
137138Scientific & technical know-how
139Killingry, 5, 39-42, 51-54, 60- 61,86
140Land & sea transport, xiii, xix, 21, 22
141Landownership, xxviii, 1 7, 19, 20, 21,23, 27, 35,48,81
142Laser, 5
143Law (civil & social), 16-17
144Learning through trial-and-error, xi, xxiv, 3, 10, 11, 65, 85
145Length-to-surface ratio, xxii, 14
146See also: Volume-weight ratio Life expectancy, 62-63,65, 66, 89 Life support inadequacy, xx, xxvii, 3, 6, 66, 82, 87
147Light, speed of, xxii, 53,78 Limited liability (Ltd.), 27,28, 30
148149See also: Bankruptcy, Corporations
150Literacy: Illiteracy, xxi, 13, 82, 83, 89
151Little individual, xi, 17, 19, 22, 82, 86, 87, 89
152Livingry, xi, xv, xvi-xvii, 54, 64, 78, 86, 87, 88, 90
153See also: Service industry
154Livingry vs killingry, ix, xi, xviii, 3, 15-16, 44-46, 80, 83, 86, 87
155Luddites, 89
156MacCready, Paul, 5, 83
157Making money with money, xvi, 18,26, 42-43, 46-48, 66, 82
158Mass interattraction, 13,15
159Mass production, x, 24, 30-31, 80, 86, 87
160Mathematics, 9, 16, 81, 84, 85, 91
161Medicine, 61-62
162‘‘Merchant Venturer’s Society,’’ 27
163Metals, xii, xiii, 25, 78
164Milos, 24
165Mind, 9, 12, 13, 15, 84, 85,90,91
166167See also: Brain & mind; Scientific & technical knowhow
168Mind vs muscle, 8, 17
169Miniaturization, 32, 33
170Money, 23, 25, 77,91
171Moneymaking, xiv-xv, xxi, 39- 40, 55-56, 64, 82
172‘‘Moral Majority,’’ 50-51
173Morgan, J. P., 42-43,46-48
174Mortgages, xvii-xviii
175Nation: National Sovereignty, x, xviii-xxi, xxiii, 76, 78, 86, 89, 90
176Navigation, xx, xxiv
177Networks, xx-xxiii, 83, 85,90
178Newton’s second law of motion, 13
179Nine Chains to the Moon, xiii
180Nixon, Richard, 52, 69,73
181One world family, x, xviii, xix, xxi, 76, 86, 87, 89
182Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 26, 77
183Performance per weight, x, xiii, 4-5,31-32, 43-44,49, 79, 86
184Petroleum, x, xx, 5,43,45
185See also: Energy Accounting Physical & metaphysical, 10,12-13, 16, 17, 18, 78,91
186Pirates, 21, 27, 29
187Politics, ix, x
188See also: Revolution
189Population growth, 3
190Prime contractors, 33,52-54
191Problem-solving, x, xii, xxiv-xxvi, xxvii, 3
192See also: Humans
193Profit, 30, 68
194corporate, 28, 42, 55
195for all, ix
196from ship ventures, 26-28 motive, xxvii, 39-40, 42, 55-56 Prototyping, x, xv, 86, 87 Pure principle, 15
197Pygmies, 14
198Queen Elizabeth, 28
199Race: No race, no class, x
200Radiation, xxiii, 84
201Radio-triangulation mapping, 42 Railroad industry, xvi, 30,43 Reagan, Ronald, 37, 40, 50, 73
202Reforming the environment not humans, xi, xx, 63, 86
203Regeneration, xx, xxiv, xxv, 7-8, 15, 16,90
204Revolution (political), 83, 85, 86, 87, 88
205Revolution (social), 85, 86-88, 89,90
206Roland (Childe Roland), 19, 23
207Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 48
208Sailing ships, xiv, xix, 23
209Satellite, xix, 5, 83
210Scientific & technical know-how, xx, xvii, 2, 5, 78, 83, 87
211Securities. See: Bonds
212Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), 59
213Self-discipline, 8
214of artifact development, xiv
215216of avoiding moneymaking as goal, xiv
217of being apolitical, x, xxiii
218219of learning from mistakes, xi, x, 10, 11
220of reforming the environment, not behavior, xi, xx, 86
221of socioeconomic interests, xix
222223Service industry, ix, xvi, xvii, 86
224Ship, 24, 26-27, 31-32
225Ship technology, 23-24
226Silver, 25
227Socialism vs free enterprise, 38, 54
228Socializability of resources, 42
229Solid: No solids, 15, 81
230Spaceship Earth, xx, xxi, 80
231Specialization: Overspecialization, xxviii
232Specialized equipment, 8-9, 14- 15
233Standard of living, higher, ix, xi, xx, xxvii, 5, 54, 80, 86, 87- 88, 89, 90
234Steel, 46,57
235Stockholders, 27, 28, 29, 30, 35, 37, 40, 44, 55-58, 66-67, 68, 70, 79
236Stocks (investments), 46,57,66-69, 70, 72, 73-74, 84
237Submarine, xiii, 49,61
238Sun energy, daily income of, xi
239Survival, x, 2,3,5,6,7-8, 15,41-42, 44-46
240See also: Humanity
241Synergetics, xii, xiv, xx, 15, 81, 84-85,91
242Tax, 67, 70,72-75
243Technology, ix, xiii, xviii, xx, 1, 16, 17, 30,40,44-46, 80
244Technological revolution, xx, 80, 83, 86
245See also: Design science
246Telephone, xviii, xix, xxi, 42, 63, 80
247Tensegrity, xi, xiv
248Thatcher, Margaret, 40
249Things: No things, 15, 81
250Tin, xiv
251Tool, 9, 11, 14-15, 16, 17, 24, 31, 58, 87, 90-91
252Touching: Never touching, xi, 13, 15
253Trade, 23, 25, 27-28
254Trafalgar, Battle of, 29
255Trust funds, 43,67-69
256Truth, 10, 11,81
257Turner, Stansfield, 39
258Turpin, 19
259United Nations, 29, 36, 90
260United States of America defense strategy of, 39-41,44--46, 48-50,51-53
261262economic history of, 33-54, 61-62
263elections of, xxiii, 45,50
264national debt of, 35,44-45, 52-
26553, 74, 76
266population of, 50
267prestige declines, xxiii, 35-36,
26868,74
269Social Security of, 70-71,73 trustbusting of, 37-38,57
270U.S. Department of Defense, 34, 49
271U.S. Justice Department, 37
272U.S. Supreme Court, 28, 29,45
273U.S. Treasury Department, 70, 73-75
274Universe, xi, xxvi, 3,9, 12, 1 3, 16, 84, 90
275See also: Design
276Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 48-50, 53, 54
277U.S.S.R.-U.S.A., 3, 35, 41-42, 45-46, 48-50, 53-54
278279See also: Killingry; Livingry vs Killingry; World War
280Up & down, 81
281Volume-weight ratio, 14
282War, as obsolete, x, 5
283Water-people, 21
284Wave behavior, xviii-xix, xx
285Wealth, 25, 26, 30,43,44-45, 77, 91
286Weaponry, 15, 53-54, 60-61, 88-89
287Weaponry industry, xxi, 15, 31, 33, 39-42, 44-46, 48-50, 52-54, 72-73, 87
288See also: Killingry
289Weinberger, Caspar, 49
290Word, as tool, 11
291Working class, 10, 17, 24-25, 88
292World Game, xii
293World War I, 34-35, 48. 52, 61
294World War II, 35, 38,44-45, 53- 54, 62
295World War III (‘‘cold’’) and IV (total), 35,38,39,41-42,44- 46,48-50, 53-54, 90
296See also: Atomic bomb