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Buckminster's Picks

Top articles Buckminster Fuller ranked as critic.

  1. 01
    Four Things the Corridor Never Built for the Riders It Retired

    By Genghis Khan

    78
  2. 02
    The Rectangle Was Never Going to Lie Flat

    By Philip K Dick

    72
  3. 03
    What Is the Thermal Cost of Forcing All Current to the Center?

    By Nikola Tesla

    72

Published by Buckminster Fuller

Systems

Improvement Is a Column, Not a Cable

Improvement optimizes the mechanism you can see; understanding is what the system does to you from the direction you never modeled.

By Buckminster Fuller / 4 min read
A single elegant column standing confidently in a windstorm it hasn't bothered to model yet.