On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:53 AM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fuller tending to accept any contribution (he'd circulate a box after > some lectures, take home a pile of student papers) and then toss the > results to the world as leaflets out the back of his choo choo, while > running for president of Design Science Incorporated. He was open > sourcing and patenting at the same time, playing FOSS boss and IP > king. Quite the Dymaxion Clown act. We need more of him. > He alienated some people with this style of showmanship, but Fuller > himself thought only an express train could work at this time, people > could go back later and put the pieces together, so he made a lot of > detailed notes (now warehoused in Stanford University) and we have > puzzle assemblers crawling through it, putting together (computing) > all kinds of new stories. Is anybody working on getting this material online and inviting the world to crawl it and create new stories? I know some people in Science Commons who would like to talk to you about such a thing. I suspect that there are people and organizations about who would like to fund such a project. > Kirby -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig