Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969) Fuller relates Earth to a spaceship flying through space that has a finite amount of resources and cannot be re-supplied.

I Seem to Be a Verb (1970) Co-authored with Jerome Agel and Quentin Fiore “I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe…”

Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. He was the second president of Mensa.

Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?"

Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, trying to identify what he, as an individual, could do to improve humanity's condition, which large organizations, governments, and private enterprises inherently could not do.

Pursuing this lifelong experiment, Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.

Fuller was awarded 28 US patents and many honorary doctorates. In 1970, he received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects, and also received numerous other awards.

Fuller died on July 1, 1983, aged 87

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