Ever heard of a man named Buckminster Fuller, orBucky, as hisfriends called him?
听说过一个叫巴克敏斯特·福乐的人吗?
R.Buckminster Fuller was a twentiethcenturyscientist, philosopher, inventor, and was alsonamed a great architect.
朋友们常叫他巴基。巴克敏斯特·福乐是二十世纪的科学家,哲学家,发明家,同时他也是一名伟大的建筑师。
Part of what made Bucky so special was his concernfor the planet and humanity.
他如此特别的部分原因是他很关心地球和人类。
When you have a shortage of resources, he said, you get war.
他说当缺乏资源时,就会发生战争。
Thus, he developed an idea called ComprehensiveAnticipatory Design Science.
所以,他开创了一种观念,叫作“全面预期设计科学”。
It’s a mouthful, but what it entails is his belief that to solve humanity’smajor problems.
这个名字有点拗口,但它需要巴基的信念来解决人类主要问题。
We have to look forward to the future; we have to anticipate what will becomeproblems asresources diminish, etc.
我们必须展望未来;我们必须预期会出现的问题,比如资源减少等等。
His goal? Quote:
他是目标?
“More and more life support for everybody, with less and less resources.”
引用一句话:用最少的资源维持更多人的生活。
He wasespecially interested in developing more efficient housing; that is, a new way ofconstructingbuildings so that they provide more housing space with the use of fewer
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