Talk:Geoscope

Critical Path

I want to add the point that when Mr. Fuller used the word Geoscope he didn't confine it to the 200 ft. diameter model Earth.He also used it to refer to smaller spheres with some kind of semi-transparent or screened continents on the surface, the sphere oriented to the installation location and viewed from inside towards the stars of the night sky.

From Mr. Fuller's book, Critical Path:

We also need to construct a large number of Geoscopes, which are large, see-through spheres shaped and oriented like the planet Earth. By standing inside, you can view the stars exactly as they appear to anyone standing at any point on Earth. Computers for each Geoscope will "store all relevant inventories of world data arranged chronologically, in the order and spacing of discovery, as they have occurred throughout all known history." Time-lapse images projected onto the Geoscope will display in a matter of minutes all sorts of global, long-term trends, everything from continental drift to human migration to use of transportation. "With the Geoscope humanity would be able to recognize formerly invisible patterns and thereby to forecast and plan in vastly greater magnitude than heretofore."

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.34.115.71 (talk) 17:44, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

A proper source for this quote would be useful. We have the title and author, but need the page number, edition, etc; {{Cite book}} is useful for this. It could then be added to the article as a <ref>. HairyWombat 16:39, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Its a good quote I remember it but haven't got the book or access. Some Bucky Fuller must have!? Szczels (talk) 11:19, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

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The work of Danny_Dorling and his team realise these ideas to some extent with his dynamic maps of demographics. See Worldmapper Szczels (talk) 11:11, 24 August 2016 (UTC)