Speculative Prehistory of Humanity

In Fuller’s article he discuses the advance and efficiency of technology in industrial design. He also makes a point to let society know that we are wasteful of our energy (which most of us already know) he states, “we have on average of two million automobiles standing in front of red spotlights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full efforts of 200 million horses being completed wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.” Besides humans being wasteful of energy, Fuller states, “"The architectural profession-civil, naval, aeronautical, and astronautical-has always been the place where the most competent thinking is conducted regarding livingry, as opposed to weaponry." He is referring to livingry as human-life advantaging and environment-controlling. Humans should be using their resources (naval, aeronautical, etc.) to enhance living on Earth. Humans should be using such ideas as spherical buildings which are environment-controlling buildings, instead of using tall vertical buildings which have the maximum possible energy losing capability. Fuller states that war is obsolete, meaning that we should no longer be using the military’s and NASA’s competent thinking individuals to create weapons, instead we should be collaborating on how to use what we know about energy to improve human life, which will give humanity the option of becoming “enduringly successful.” We have the knowledge and technology to shift design in a more useful direction, we just need society to take part in it.