Critical Path is a book written by US author and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller with the assistance of Kiyoshi Kuromiya. First published in 1981, it is alongside Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth one of Fuller's best-known works. Vast in its scope, it describes Fuller's own vision of the development of human civilization, economic history, and his highly original economic ideology based, amongst other things, on his detailed description of why scarcity of resources need no longer be a decisive factor in global politics.
A good read, but I wish Mr. Fuller had used an editor. His writing here is more repetitive than it needs to be, and it loses some of its power as a result. The historical bits were perhaps the most interesting.
A lot to chew on here. I first read this book as a student in 1981 or ‘82 and it did shape my thoughts on Governmental and Social Power Structures. Easier to read this volume than to sit through one of Mr. Buckminster Fullers long-winded Lectures (as I did...)!
