Living a 20th-century life "dedicated to shaking up the planet", Buckminster Fuller had a creative mind, with many ideas so far-reaching that they are "only now hitting the mainstream, some 25 years after his death." Included among those credits is his anticipation of the Internet, environmental problems and cyber culture. And his concepts, expressed through his writings, lectures and drawingts, had an influence on modernist, abstract art.

Fuller's name is especially associated with the geodome as he was the first person to design a domed shaped structures. In fact, the dome, Spaceship Earth, at Epcot Center at Disney World, is based on Fuller's design. He was also hired to design the dome-shaped U.S....