Recorded Live - Two Cassettes Fuller relates the experience of the incredible acceleration of change that came about in his lifetime. He explains his vision of how the universe works and how its laws have been discovered for the purpose of igniting our curiosity. Note: The inherent difficulities of live recordings and the age of some of the recordings can cause variations in the sound quality. BUCKMINSTER FULLER (1895-1983) was an engineer, visionary, inventor, philosopher and humanitarian who discovered energetic/synergetic geometry and devised a structural system known as Tensegrity Structures. His inventions included the geodesic dome.