Buckminster Fuller on Technology

No one can say precisely where our civilization began to experience the surge in technology that we’re now enjoying.  A case could be made for the electrification of essentially everything in our lives, which happened when people like Tesla, Edison, and Westinghouse implemented the discovery that Michael Faraday had made in the 1830s re: the relationship between electricity and magnetism.

In any case, what Buckminster Fuller said here is profound.  Like all things in our lives, we have a decision to make.  We can beat our swords into plowshares, or we can beat our plowshares into swords.

As a practical matter, social evils like war and selfishness are tough to deal with.  Rich countries and the wealthy people who live in them are unwilling to give anything away, and will protect their possessions, literally to the death.