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This is wonderful news! Interesting listening to their snippet of the recording and Fuller is talking about problems getting enough houses for people.

I’d be very interested to listen to more of these recordings. But this:

“The Fuller wire recordings can now be streamed in the Special Collections reading room at Green Library.”

You mean to tell me I’ve got to physically go to a library at Stanford to listen to this? Even the sample audio is an unlisted video. That YouTube channel doesn’t have the rest of the recordings. Disappointing. Perhaps I am misunderstanding but it seems the preservation was funded by a donor yet Stanford is keeping the recordings for those with the privilege to listen on site. Is that correct?

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Seems that way, sad isn't it, we live in times of unparalleled connectivity yet there are more walls than gardens.

Extremely frustrating. Relatedly, I just wrote at length to a museum director about wanting to see a painting in the collection. The painting has been warehoused for years, like thousands of other works. it's not in need of special preservation. it's simply not on display because their walls have no room and the artist isn't currently of any special interest (except that he's important enough to have his work hoarded?). What a shame! All works in all major collections should be digitized and on display. What's the point of our culture if it's not being transmitted!

You’ll love the Rijksmuseum then, they’ve digitized hundreds of thousands of works. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en

One aspect of Buckminster Fuller that many people don't want you to know is that he had a number of politically incorrect opinions which are in the archives but would tarnish his public reputation if they were easily accessible. I believe this is the main reason that certain aspects of his records are kept behind lock and key as it were.

For example?

I'd be curious to know if he ran afoul of the verboten PC topics (race, gender, sexuality); considering the era in which he lived and worked, it seems not-unlikely that he'd be a "product of his time".

At the same time, he clearly held many political positions which were much more controversial in his era, but that the left-libertarian-leaning HN crowd wouldn't find objectionable, whatever their status in the 2021 Overton window: staunchly anti-war, anti-corporate [0], and openly pursuing a post-scarcity utopia [1].

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285349.Grunch_of_Giants

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1321401.Utopia_or_Oblivi...

I would like to know as well.

You're defaming a dead man, the "many people" you claim "don't want you to know", the PC crowd, and yourself.

[citation needed]

That seems to be the case for me as well. Unable to locate the recordings :(

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