Science

It was maybe fifteen minutes and he talked with everyone in our small group.

My mom was a fan and kept his book I Seem to be a Verb on her reference shelf.

I may have been a bit of a pest when Fuller and Kiyoshi Kuromiya were writing Critical Path but that's all I'll say, except that I was a complete lunatic then, not the partial lunatic I am now. When I had a question I could be unreasonably persistent in finding the answer.

In Critical Path Fuller envisions a worldwide electric grid and the kilowatt hour as the basis for a world currency. For a long time I found the proposal intriguing. Unfortunately the math doesn't work. It's very similar to proposed hydrogen economies in that respect. The synergies do not offset the financial or environmental costs.