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Alec nevala lee5/28/2023 ![]() So in August I was intrigued to discover, through my regular perusal of Deborah Kalb’s Book Q&As, that Alec Nevala-Lee had written a new book, Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller. Four hours later, Bucky was still talking, and when I tried to break in, he waved me aside and said, “I’m still on my introduction.”” Drucker writes: “Bucky Fuller and Marshall McLuhan had been friends of mine long before they became celebrities.” And later, when Drucker was on the faculty of Bennington College in Vermont in the 1940s: “When I introduced Bucky at his first speech at Bennington, I told the audience that he would talk for forty-five minutes and then answer questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve long been fascinated by the life and work of Buckminster Fuller, who died in 1983 at 87, and whose Wikipedia entry describes him as an “American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist.” I was especially drawn to his story because of the chapter “The Prophets: Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan,” in Peter Drucker’s 1978 memoir Adventures of a Bystander. ![]()
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