Critical Path

I just started finishing reading Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller. When I bought it, the clerk at the book store said "This is the most important published work since... the bible." We'll see how that goes. Thought I'd post this quote from the introduction.

"History shows that, only when the leaders of the world's great power structures have become convinced that their power structures are in danger of being destroyed, have the gargantuanly large, adequate funds been appropriated for accomplishing the necessary epoch-opening new technologies. It took preparation for World War III to make available the funds that have given us computers, transistors, rockets, and satellites to realistically explore the Universe. "