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Nine Chains to the Moon

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492: 97:, first published in 1938. The title refers to the observation that, when the book was written, the world population of humans (Fuller calls them "earthians"), if stood one atop another, could form chains that would reach back and forth between Earth and the Moon nine times. 104:, Fuller's term for the process of doing more with less. Fuller believed that this would lead to ever-increasing standards of living and ever-growing population despite finite resources. Fuller uses 405: 213: 537: 390: 433: 561: 245: 108:'s assembly line as an example of how ephemeralization can lead to better products at lower cost with no upper bound on productivity. 182: 206: 126: 58: 556: 400: 27: 581: 530: 375: 100:
The book presents Fuller's overview of technological history. It proposes the author's vision of future prosperity driven by
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The Last Dymaxion: Buckminster Fuller’s Dream Restored
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Nine Chains to the Moon: An Adventure Story of Thought
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
United States
R. Buckminster Fuller
ephemeralization
Henry Ford
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Lippincott
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Nine Chains to the Moon
OCLC
217740
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Fuller, R. Buckminster
ISBN
0-224-00800-5
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e
Buckminster Fuller
Nine Chains to the Moon
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Critical Path
Dymaxion Chronofile
Dymaxion house
Dymaxion car
Dymaxion deployment unit
Dymaxion map
Tensegrity

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