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In 1963 appeared the little book "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" by R. Buckminster Fuller, an American inventor best-known for having developed the geodesic dome. Fuller was an early advocate of the type of holistic thinking that was to characterise the emerging environmental movement. He wrote:

:...society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. This means that the potentially-integratable techno-economic advantages accruing to society from the myriad specializations are not comprehended integratively and are therefore not realized, or they are realized only in negative ways, in new weaponry or the industrial support only of warfaring.

==References==
*R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

==Links==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
*http://www.futurehi.net/docs/OperatingManual.html

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