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'Critical Path' is a life-changing book for those that read it. It should be a standard text for use in school for every child and as it stands, everyone who has never read this masterpiece should do so at the earliest opportunity. The genius that C60 (the bucky-ball) in Chemistry was named after should, by rights, be for more well known that Einstein or Newton. His ideas are earth-shattering, while remaining eminently practical. This book will open your mind like no other and I celebrate the day I picked it up.

I first stumbled across this title in the small booklet of a Sting CD, if you can believe that (don't forget Sting was a high school English teacher before his "white reggae" stardom.) This is THE twenty-first century survival manual if you ask me. It has everything: green politics, scientific method, soul mechanics, management poetry, global strategies, new age without the sewage, "righteous" criticism, fraternity, and enough flint to provoke a four-alarm fire in your nascent conscience, with an emphasis on the science. A crunchy read. (Part of my "starter's kit" along with everything ever written by C. Wright Mills, Alvin Toffler, Fritjof Capra, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Campbell, John Kenneth Galbraith, Gaston Bachelard, Abraham Maslow, Michel Foucault, and Bertrand Russell)

This is the single most powerful book I have ever read in my life so far! Bucky's thinking is brilliantly delivered in "Critical Path". I recommend this book to the highest degree possible. I think everyone onboard "Spaceship Earth" should take the time to read this amazing work before it's too late.

This is the best book I have ever rea

Because it wasn't listed in the Amazon archives, I'm using this space to review 'E.A.'; which I figure might even be in this collection (if that is what the book is). Though it is only the first book I've read of his, I simply wanted to point out what I liked and disliked in Mr. Fuller's thinking.His thoughts on some of the factors that are leading causes in the development of the first half of the 20th century - the book is from 1963 - were enlightening in the clear spin he put on them. For instance, Fascism as the result of the fall of the pre WW1 behind-the-scenes "big boys", and the ensuing taking over the chariot's reins by formerly relegated "henchmen"; all placed within the backdrop of his wider-ranging discussion of economic transformations and the utility of capital. Here and elsewhere, Fuller manages to engage in cross-generalizations that make for a strong, specialized account of an era that persists to loose itself from any grasp upon its contents. Well perhaps this interests you. Let me just say that despite this book's disconcerting lack of admission to certain human fallacies, tendencies, needs, that some of us may just want to hold on to, and a few lapses into rather dull thinking; it does makes for an overall good read. Look out for exciting examinations into the components (both hard and soft) of Fullerian concepts that have gestated into what we today know as the Internet and digital TV.