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world-building systems, when the book "Grunch of Giants" was written, the
threat of mass nuclear annihilation was quite perceptible – it was she, and not "
terrorism "was the main subject of rhetoric on the
part of the USSR, the US and all
the rest, and memories of the anticipation of a nuclear apocalypse related to the
Caribbean crisis are very fresh in the mass consciousness – something that is
currently not remembered – at least in Russia. In addition, the urgency of the
military-nuclear security of the two opposing political systems was supplemented
by the economic crisis of the eighties, and at the time of writing the book,
mankind did not yet know the credit of pumping mass demand, neither the
"Internet economy" with its dotcoms, nor the crushing of the real sector with
inflated virtual- financial bubbles. All this was only just beginning, and some,
many, many moments of this beginning Fuller could be anticipated, indicating the
reasons, which are being talked about louder today. But not to see directly – all
that is known today from the standpoint of the 30-year history of the victorious
procession of the "computer age", inspired by the dogmas of the neoliberal
economy. And indicate the direction of the movement according to his (to date –
universally recognized) multi-decade works. And to publish a book in the year of
his own death, which, in the aggregate of all these circumstances, makes it a
testament to humanity, valuable, in addition, in addition, in it, in the abstract
form, listed, inventions and significant moments of the worldview of Fuller, are
inscribed in the real historical and economic context.
An important role in the author's technological views is played by the category of
instruments that have both artificial, artefactual, and natural expressions, and
therefore, in essence, do not represent a fundamental opposition of the artificial
and natural. In this sense, the author of the term "synergetics" is extremely
bionic. Despite the fact that Fuller directly speaks about the ambivalence of using
tools, both for weaponsry purposes and for constructive work, he radically
diverges these goals at the level of the global economy and the common tasks of
the "project of mankind" in the "Scenario Universe". Of course, since the book is
dated in 1983, Fuller could not say anything about the "grins of giants" unfolded
about such an aspect, as the trend of a simple reduction of a managed socio-
anthropological substratum to its more primitive states, through the reduction of
the entire social sphere, the replacement of the cultural level with cultural waste
and mutual cultural dissolution. Indeed, some of Fuller's theses are forced to