Richard Buckminster Fuller (/ˈfʊlər/; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist.
Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" house/car, ephemeralization, synergetic, and "tensegrity". He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.
Fuller was the second World President of Mensa from 1974 to 1983.
In the Illuminatus! trilogy[]
Within the Illuminatus! trilogy, Fuller (usually called "Bucky Fuller" throughout the books) is depicted as an advanced thinker, having rediscovered ancient truths.
He is mentioned to be "one of the few people to be aware that he lived on a spaceship". While on a plane trip from New Dheli to Honolulu, he is wearing three watches, one set to local time, one set to the time in his destination and one set to the time of his home in Carbondale, Illinois. He is doing the same later while travelling to Nairobi. According to Simon Moon, this helps you getting used to relativity.
Simon Moon also explains that Fuller is the first person after the Illuminati to recognize that "[e]nergy is always triangular, not cubical" in the context of his pyramidal and tetrahedral geometry, yet he hasn't dicovered the connection between mind and the matter-energy continuum. His geometrical system is also credited for basically having eliminated the use of the constant π and working better in space than on Earth.