If humans were part of nature, all humans' creations must be natural as well. He knew that the hard, cold inanimate industrial materials used for the technological tools and machinery of the late 19th and early 20th century were part a transitory phase that would soon pass. The lighter, stronger alloys of the early 20th century demonstrated the capacity for new combinations of various metals and elements to exhibit vastly different structural characteristics and functional propensities. Fuller envisioned that even more lightweight materials with higher tensile strengths would soon follow in the not too distant future. And the qualities inherent in these materials could be most effectively put to use by taking an entirely new approach to design itself.
Nature designs for a fluid universe, a universe of change.
Looking closely at what Fuller was up to with his synergetic geometry , we can see much more of relevance than merely a type of math that forms lightweight spherical enclosures of the strongest sort. Fuller introduced an entirely new approach to taking dynamic architecture of the micro and macro worlds into the rapidly accelerating medio world we inhabit. He introduced a set of terms that could easily become a conceptual ballast for the fast-paced changes of today. The 1990s has brought many of us face to face with an avalanche of almost daily developments in cyber-based technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web , virtual reality , biotechnologies , genetics and molecular nanotechnology . As we approach the turn of the millennium, we are individually and collectively bombarded with the dynamic artifacts of information revolution.