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Buckminster Fuller was a prophet of technology
Alec Nevala-Lee gives him his due in “Inventor of the Future”
Inventor of the Future. By Alec Nevala-Lee. Dey Street Books; 672 pages; $35 and £25
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Culture July 23rd 2022
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