The Buckminster Fuller Institute has some books online, including the full audio files and transcripts of Fuller's 42 hour lecture, Everything I Know.

The year I was born Marconi invented the wireless, but it did not get into any practical use until I was 12 years of age when the first steamship sends an S.O.S., its in distress, by wireless so think of it a great many miles and the world began to know the ship was in distress and ships began to rush to its aid. Absolutely unexpected! My father and mother would say "wireless! such nonsense!"

And when I was three the electron was discovered, and nobody talked about that. It wasn't in any of the newspapers nobody was interested in electrons didn't know what an electron was that had been discovered.

I was brought up that humanity would never get to the North Pole absolutely impossible, they'd never get to the South Pole; and our Mercator maps didn't even show anything... the Northern-most points were kind of a rugged line, but you didn't see or know anything up beyond that.

When I was 14 man did get to the North Pole, and when I was 16 he got to the South Pole, so impossibles are happening.

Found on an old Metascene entry. Will someone please fix Fred's computer?