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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. - R. Buckminster Fuller

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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Author Profession: Inventor

Nationality: American

Born: July 12, 1895

Died: July 1, 1983

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Thomas A. Edison, Charles Kettering, Orville Wright, Dean Kamen, Gary Gygax, Ray Kurzweil, Jacque Fresco, George Eastman

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Acquiring, Humanity, Reasons, Right, Technology, Wrong, Wrong Reasons

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