Buckminster Fuller has had a profound influence on our modern society as the godfather of environmental and ecological awareness and practice. A philosopher, inventor, and one of the boldest innovators of the 20th century, he is known as the designer of the Dymaxion House, Car, and Map, the Geodesic Dome, and the World Game. As a mathematician he is recognized as the discoverer of Synergetics, and it was he who coined the term Spaceship Earth. He is the author of over two dozen books.