"No More Secondhand God and other writings"

by R. Buckminster Fuller.

These notes are taking the article and putting it into an understandable form. I apologize for any misinterpretations by me.

THE FULLER RESEARCH FOUNDATION

After World War One we became aware of the accelerating magnitude of technical advantage over dynamic environment and man now harvested the network of all history's knowledge and its derivative technology. Most important to the foundation was the direct experiences acquired while first initiating development, production, and distribution of complex products and services which embodied the new technical advantage, both in direct design and as indirect changes within arts, economics, geographical and psychological patterns. Consequently, new strategies for (A) pre-enterprise investigation and (B) technique of scientific objectivity in complex prototyping were started in 1927 by me.

The strategy and technique was based on worldwide knowledge of direct experimentation and measurement under itemized conditions. The term "Dymaxion" was adopted to represent this. As a result of experiences in frequently repeated "trial balance" initiations of prototype engineering; trend tendencies diferentiation and overall measurement, progressive strategy reorientation and self-education and re-education the comprehensive undertaking was formally incorporated in 1946 as the Fuller Research Foundation.

The Fuller Research Foundation was clarifyingly dedicated to:

1. 1. Creating common wealth through individually conceived, intuitively urged and spontaneously joined, search, research and enterprise in future furthuring of MAN IN DYNAMIC UNIVERSE ADVANTAGE.
2. 2. "More with less"ing based on natural laws which through competent comprehensive designing creates artifacts, thus:
3. 3. Creating abundance, thus avoiding the need for war and fostering mutual good will and faith.
4. 4. But the foundation only searches, researches, or acts within areas of exploration not taken seriously and unfunded by:
5. 5. Business and government, as each operates in the first phase of realization. (production)

The foundation's unorthodoxy is given serious thought by practical men, who encourage/subsidize it monetarily for its undertaking which are:

• Businesswise outside normal budgetary efficiency, too risky and unprofitable and commercially untried.
• When the "routine probables" of business and the "approximate certainties" of government fail to materialize, each blames the other.

  However, the discovery of utterly new patterns which the foundation is professionally concerned may furnish concepts, data, and implications which may renew understanding and basic industrial strategy advance. That one in a million chance may justify its existence.

  The foundation's undertakings are seen governmentwise as lacking certainty and acceptability of common focus characterizing problems of public convenience, sloughed off, for example as if it were just common conern for "weather" or abundances and shortcomings or in irritating regulations based on emergency extended beyond emergency. Because the FRF projects must re-examine and invent new words, it makes idea packaging of concepts and undertakings difficult.

  New words and needs become obvious only after years of non obvious, yet persistent trends which are denounced or rejustified by government to business. Government subsidizes business by various means such as maintaining roads and harbours, underwriting projects and dealing with seemingly profitless enterprise which become profitable as business ventures.

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