Mr. Fuller describes the philosophical tenets that underlie his approach to architectural design. The world, he says, must be concerned with the welfare of "total man." Only by recognizing and maintaining the upper hand in the unconscious struggle between man and the machine, between a society that uses technology and a society that is controlled by technology, can man shape his own destiny. As a "comprehensive design scientist," R. Buckminster Fuller has set out to alert people and nations to that struggle. R. Buckminster Fuller a man who has been called the first poet of technology and the greatest living genius of industrial technical realization in building talks of himself and his ideas on this richly illustrated three-episode series. The Fuller World presents the revolutionary architectural contributions of this scientist-philosopher in terms of his own concept of the world and the needs of mankind. The Fuller World is a 1963 production of WGBH-TV, Boston for NET. Original music composed and conducted by Daniel Pinkham. The 3 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded on videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
