Thank you MIT for sharing this great video. I would love to get my hands on the section of lost audio because I rather enjoyed that thread he was elaborating. Absolutely brilliant talk. He initially appears scattered but as he continues introducing various threads and perspectives, it produces an incredible worldview. He was ahead of his time, or rather humanity hadn’t yet caught up.
People read Marx or whoever and they think they've just found the holy grail. They try to comprehend a picture by looking at a pixel. This man owned the camera.
At one point Bucky was going to commit suicide. But then he said fuck it I'm gonna be who I am, ignore the fools and look what he's become. Rest in peace great thinker.
Exactly. I think the gobbledygook got in the way tremendously. He sounded disconnected from his listeners and like a quack. I think he was overrated. He failed anyway. Whatever his ideas about efficiency he certainly wasn’t verbally.
I built my 1st geodesic dome 1972. This talk was really good as in 1976 I did go to a mountain "top". My big problem always was with "stones" as a surname and all else. I think maybe 1972 I got God-realised 3 times 3 nights in susscession. BF died same year that Bhagawan Soaham died & he was a Hindu astrologer I'd met.
Nice to see this lecture. Read synergetics 40 years ago. I will have to read it again. Bucky is an example of why we need AI and human cloning. It is tragic that such people are so rare. Would be neat to have a bunch of bachs, kandinskys, einsteins, darwins, etc running around. Sure beats top 40.
@@bardoface Thanx for comment. I wonder if you've read any of Bucky's books (he was a poet among the many other things he was including the inventor of Synergetic Geometry which is used all over the world) such as Critical Path or Grunch Of Giants? He often said "you have to decide whether you are going to make money or make sense because the two are mutually exclusive." Perhaps I am wrong, but I suspect that is quite a foreign concept to you. Cosmic Vision with deep ethical insight based on a deep and abiding love of Humanity and coupled with an awe-inspiring creative intelligence are qualities of Heart from which Musk has everything to learn and precious little to contribute. It is not about Money and Power. I highly recommend those books to you!
@@jimrichardson1069 it’s not a foreign concept to me. I’m an English major and have read poetry all my life. Now that I’m older my path is more critical and less romantic and my tolerance for poetry in other contexts is less patient. I had a mentor genius that spoke like Bucky but I could not ultimately learn anything practical from him because he refused to make enough sense to pass on his knowledge effectively. Descartes said the purpose of all learning is to enable one to make sound judgements. Im retroactively critical of Bucky now and think he could have made more practical sense if he wanted to pass it on. The way he spoke didn’t give me increased clarity efficiently and I’m not into it. I have a personally autographed Critical Path signed by Bucky. I’m currently reading it. If I want poetry and science I’ll go to Loren Eisley. I like the efficiency aspect of some ideas that came out of his influence like accelerated learning games. I lead a workshop that came out of his influence. But I don’t have the patience to listen to him speak much, as adorable and curious as he was. Especially now. I’ve not read synergetics. I’ve heard of geometric thinking from Rudy Rucker. I appreciate the optimism of Bucky’s vision for humanity. I think it might have gone further if he communicated it more efficiently and with less goofy eccentricity. It made him seem more like a novelty and weird. What is the biggest impact you think he made in the world? He definitely showed amazing rapid innovative ways of thinking. Perhaps this innovative language is necessary. I find it annoying.
Beautiful talk by a beautiful mind that we seem to have forgotten and would do very well to remember. Mahatma Bucky.
Such a refreshing and insightful tapestry of ideas
Listening to this man is like plugging into the source code
This is the Way.
Thank you MIT for sharing this great video. I would love to get my hands on the section of lost audio because I rather enjoyed that thread he was elaborating.
Absolutely brilliant talk. He initially appears scattered but as he continues introducing various threads and perspectives, it produces an incredible worldview.
He was ahead of his time, or rather humanity hadn’t yet caught up.
People read Marx or whoever and they think they've just found the holy grail. They try to comprehend a picture by looking at a pixel. This man owned the camera.
Perfectly put!
At one point Bucky was going to commit suicide. But then he said fuck it I'm gonna be who I am, ignore the fools and look what he's become. Rest in peace great thinker.
Both failed. Bucky failed.
Genius
Timeless.
Thank you for the captions
I might listen to him later. I’m sure I’ll like what he’s saying.
Verbally speaking, there is sometimes a fine line between visionary wisdom and gobbledygook.
Exactly. I think the gobbledygook got in the way tremendously. He sounded disconnected from his listeners and like a quack. I think he was overrated. He failed anyway. Whatever his ideas about efficiency he certainly wasn’t verbally.
University has millions of dollars, and yet it can't keep the video tapes in air conditioning.
I built my 1st geodesic dome 1972. This talk was really good as in 1976 I did go to a mountain "top". My big problem always was with "stones" as a surname and all else. I think maybe 1972 I got God-realised 3 times 3 nights in susscession. BF died same year that Bhagawan Soaham died & he was a Hindu astrologer I'd met.
Attn: MIT Video Productions
Is this video corrupted? Or is it the best that you could salvage from your archives? All B&W silhouette for me.
Yea it's too bad it now looks like they forgot to turn the lights on. :|
1:01:15 on misinformation. Unfortunately it seems to have made a come back.
Sadly, It never went away.
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Nice to see this lecture. Read synergetics 40 years ago. I will have to read it again. Bucky is an example of why we need AI and human cloning. It is tragic that such people are so rare. Would be neat to have a bunch of bachs, kandinskys, einsteins, darwins, etc running around. Sure beats top 40.
Wow, if you play at 1.25 speed he sounds like Elon Musk talking about his vision, right down to his nervous coughs and other quirks...
except musk is a conman who over promises and under delivers and has an extreme misunderstanding of the world
Musk is a mental midget next to Fuller.
He didn’t accomplish nearly as much as Elon. He had this rep but his communication style was problematic and not efficient nor effective.
@@bardoface Thanx for comment. I wonder if you've read any of Bucky's books (he was a poet among the many other things he was including the inventor of Synergetic Geometry which is used all over the world) such as Critical Path or Grunch Of Giants? He often said "you have to decide whether you are going to make money or make sense because the two are mutually exclusive." Perhaps I am wrong, but I suspect that is quite a foreign concept to you. Cosmic Vision with deep ethical insight based on a deep and abiding love of Humanity and coupled with an awe-inspiring creative intelligence are qualities of Heart from which Musk has everything to learn and precious little to contribute. It is not about Money and Power. I highly recommend those books to you!
@@jimrichardson1069 it’s not a foreign concept to me. I’m an English major and have read poetry all my life. Now that I’m older my path is more critical and less romantic and my tolerance for poetry in other contexts is less patient. I had a mentor genius that spoke like Bucky but I could not ultimately learn anything practical from him because he refused to make enough sense to pass on his knowledge effectively. Descartes said the purpose of all learning is to enable one to make sound judgements. Im retroactively critical of Bucky now and think he could have made more practical sense if he wanted to pass it on. The way he spoke didn’t give me increased clarity efficiently and I’m not into it. I have a personally autographed Critical Path signed by Bucky. I’m currently reading it. If I want poetry and science I’ll go to Loren Eisley. I like the efficiency aspect of some ideas that came out of his influence like accelerated learning games. I lead a workshop that came out of his influence. But I don’t have the patience to listen to him speak much, as adorable and curious as he was. Especially now. I’ve not read synergetics. I’ve heard of geometric thinking from Rudy Rucker. I appreciate the optimism of Bucky’s vision for humanity. I think it might have gone further if he communicated it more efficiently and with less goofy eccentricity. It made him seem more like a novelty and weird. What is the biggest impact you think he made in the world? He definitely showed amazing rapid innovative ways of thinking. Perhaps this innovative language is necessary. I find it annoying.