kirby urner wrote: > On 7/24/06, kirby urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I tried to hook people in by talking for hours and hours, in public > > Unfortunately, sometimes that is all they remember. He was the commencement speaker at my sisters law school graduation in1973. She remembers he spoke a long time. Pretty much, period. Logic would dictate that I attended, but I can't recall much. One of those decades, for me.
I think that in presenting his ideas one needs to realize that to some extent he is a victim of his success in getting his ideas into the meme pool. Spaceship earth (thinking, say, about the general consciousness regarding the threat of global warming), eco-capitalism (i'm thinking about the success of Whole Foods, off the bat), and other ideas he might have been instrumental in lauching into the general collective idea-pool., seem today, on one hand, rather matter-of-fact and - to those who don't feel like the worst is by any means over - ineffective in changing fundamental things, fundamentally. In the little web research I did this morning I find him being described, with admiration, as someone who was driven mad by the 20th century. I've saved the 21st for that ;) Art Art > He did, not I. > > I'm more focused on television, and splicing in the relevant geometry > clips. Fuller wanted people to develop "mind's eye" capabilities so > sometimes skimped on the visuals (I recall his talk at Hunter College > where the assistants started bringing colorful polyhedra onstage and > he waved them back into the wings, saying something like "no, not yet, > make them use their brains"). > > Kirby > > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
