Bucky Fuller's Requirements for a Dwelling Advantage

File under features no home should be without:

Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage

III. A. Provision of ready mechanical means, complementing or implementing, all development requirements of the individual's potential growth phenomena--allowing the facile, scientifically efficient, no-energy-or-time-loss--spontaneous development of self-disciplined education, by means of

1. Conning*, i.e., selectively stimulated awareness of the momentary interactions of universal progressions accomplished by means of facile reference to vital data on
• history
• news
• forecasts

calls for a conning facility combining book and periodical library, radio, television facilities, systematically arranged incoming reports on
1. current supply and demand conditions
2. current dynamic conditions -- weather -- earthquakes--latest scientific research findings
3. social dynamics-surfacing of commonweal problems of comprehensive readjustment to new potential and concomitant obsolescense factors
4. latest technical reference in
   • texts
   • movie documentation
   • television university (soon evoluting to increasing importance and reliability as the Autonomous Dwelling Facility becomes widely available) (52)

from No More Secondhand God and other writings
by R. Buckminster Fuller (1971)

While this list may well describe the home of the later 21st Century, it probably best describes a research center in the first decade of that century.

* Bucky takes his definition for conning from his days in the Naval War College, meaning to examine or study, but also to steer a ship. :dj