I realize that such prognostications are like trying to explain the Internet BEFORE the Internet, but familiarity with heartware as cultural DNA will provide extraordinary opportunity for those who would catch and ride the 4th Wave of the computer/Internet revolution.

Buckminster Fuller was one of the most amazing people I've ever met and studied under.  Of course his ultimate vision for humanity -- a design science revolution of, by and for higher Conscience -- will only occur if enough good people do enough to make it so.  As you connect the dots in this following article, consider how the real legacy of Buckminster Fuller -- and The Troy Model -- is the best ideas that optimism and innovation bring to fruition.

“Revolution by design and invention is the only revolution tolerable
to all men, societies, and all political systems anywhere.”
~ R. Buckminster Fuller, 1965

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One of the most fascinating and original minds of the 20th Century, Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 July 1, 1983) was an American architect, author, designer, inventor, and futurist who pioneered the concept of design science whereby society could be redesigned to be comprehensively successful for everyone on earth.  Underpinning all of his work was an optimistic view of human potential.

Studying 19th-century philosophers like Malthus, Fuller concluded that they had gotten it wrong; mankind wasn't an “inherent failure", but in his view was becoming an inherent success. He believed we could use human ingenuity and existing resources to solve global problems, as long as we committed "egocide".  "Selfishness", he declared, "is unnecessary and unrationalizable”.  From his perspective, we could utilize design science to create such extraordinary abundance as to make the oxymoronic “value of scarcity” (economics of scarcity) obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller taught that “livingry” (local/global win/win abundance)
  could eventually overcome “killingry” (the win/lose rationale for war).

 
Fuller coined the term "doing more with less", introducing synergetics, an encompassing term which he used broadly as a metaphoric language for communicating experiences using geometric concepts and, more specifically, to reference the empirical study of systems in transformation, with an emphasis on total system behavior unpredicted by the behavior of any isolated components. Fuller coined this term long before the term synergy became popular.

I met Bucky, as we affectionately called him, at his month long "World Game Studies Workshop" at the University of Pennsylvania, the summer of 1974.  I gave a lecture to the World Game participants, explaining how pure geometry archetypes in the  Model represent natural laws framing the order of the universe and the language of consciousness.  I explained:
 

(1) Why all social, political and economic problems are, at heart, communication problems;

(2) How community is defined by interactive "come-into-unity (communication) processes;

(3) Why communities of the future will utilize interactive mass-to-mass communication that involves and evolves our individual and collective Conscience;
(4) How the technology of language, geometrized with "The  Model" (heartware) will naturally culture social Conscience at the heart of global communication networks.

One response to that lecture was an invitation to speak to ten agencies of the Federal government several months later, which I did, as you can read at "Speaking Truth to Power".  The response was a revelation for me.  I learned first-hand that federal government is not interested in making our core social institutions accountable to the public's best interests.  Surprise, surpriseJ  The fix was in, even back then, and the inordinate love of power behind the scenes of Washington DC has created great instability... just as Thomas Edison's invention of Direct Current (power generation) was extremely unstable compared to Nichola Tesla's invention of "AC" (Alternating Current) that made Edison's DC current obsolete.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model
  that makes the existing model obsolete.”
~ Buckminster Fuller

Consider this analogy of "power generation", from the physical to the political and the potential for enlightened social Conscience.  Once engineers learned how to conduct and distribute electricity in the 19th Century, we transformed the entire earth in a blink of evolutionary time.  When we discover reliable means to culture, network and utilize "higher power" (full-spectrum Conscience), we will likewise participate in an extremely rapid evolution of consciousness and society; the global rEVOLUTION in higher Conscience.

 If you realize how electric power transformed the world in
a blink of evolutionary time, just consider how the power
of unleashed social Conscience will transform the world!

This analogy is appropriate when you consider that an electronic Space Age upgrade of our horse-and-buggy legislative systems could update decentralized public representation of our five core Constitutional freedoms in the way that makes centralized "DC current" obsolete.  Indeed, when centralized power in Washington DC represents the inordinate love of power -- giant corporate monopolies in collusion with powerful government agencies -- what suffers is the decentralized currency of Conscience.  Conversely, when the decentralized power of love frames the design of our new instant-everywhere and interactive Internet infrastructure, global community and the commonwealth will reboot with a golden age.

"Man can harness the winds, the waves and the tides,
 but when he can harness the power of love,
 then for the second time in the history of the world,
 man will have discovered fire."
 - Teihard de Chardin

The Troy Model was an attempt to bring global drama to an uncompromised vision of humanity's possible future.  Outwardly, this model featured a geodesic dome over Troy Ohio's downtown square, a spherical dome that symbolized the "global" geometries of nature applied to a virtually transparent enclosed community center.  Inwardly, The Troy Model featured the most compelling artifact of the human intellect, the language of consciousness applied to the first system of interactive mass-to-mass TeLeComm, emphasizing the TLC with heartware.

"Our greatest human creation is not the tool but the word, not the technology that we so treasure and depend on but the language that has allowed us to talk about it. Language, not technology, is the most compelling artifact of the human intellect." ~ Dale Peterson
 

The Troy Model was (and is) an archetype of the biological model of nature
in both its pure geometry design and the process of human evolution.

Most people don't realize that we all were a geodesic sphere, the geometry of a single fertilized cell that -- in the process of cellular mitosis -- divides first in two parts, then four, than eight, etc. until the zygote resembles a geodesic sphere -- the same nature-based geometry in a geodesic dome. 

Every living cell has a two-way interactive nervous system and the pure intention of The Troy Model was to represent the first living community cell in the world body.  Every cell has a "brain", the DNA coding of its operating system, and The Troy Model featured a model of cultural DNA with the  language of pure geometry ( Model) framing a universal "light language" as the language of consciousness at the quintessential foundation of self-governance. 

That language provides an exquisite metaphor for enlightenment, a process that incorporates light's control and mastery through the interactive input/feedback cycles defining and refining the origination and real-time (instant) evaluation of community programming.

That was the heart of  The Troy Model -- the interactive heartware dynamics of information's ecology that organizes community information IN FORMATION, framing "more light" (Conscience) with self-correcting feedback systems as will naturally culture Conscience, raising the standard of communications and community worthy of the title, 7th Wonder of America, if not the world. 

The divine destiny of human evolution has brought us to this point -- mass awakening to an enlightened whole systems vision for navigating the vast unchartered realms of "Inner Space", the virtually untapped potential of our God-given gifts and talents as could be cultured and networked with heartware.

Despite the systemic dysfunction and inertia in the current geopolitical status quo, we have the capacity to restore the natural systems we have corrupted, and create a new planetary culture based on the conscientious common sense -- communality of interest -- that cultures the worldwide web with the natural law and language of Conscience.  With heartware as the gold standard for this process, the higher power of love rules.

Buckminster Fuller gave humanity the tools for rebuilding the world with whole systems design integrity.  May the uncompromised virtue in his profound visionary integrity champion the victory that transforms the world into a web of light and love.

"This we know.  The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth ...
Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
~ Chief Seattle