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Buckminster Fuller was a noted visionary and applied futurist. He is the namesake of the third form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, and one of the first to chart long-term trends of industrialization and globalization as early as the 1930s. In 1961, Fuller made a proposal to the International Union of Architects at their VIIth Congress to encourage architectural schools around the world to invest the next ten years to address how to make the world’s total resources, which then served only 40% of the world population, serve 100% of humanity. This was the beginning of a World Design Science Decade (WDSD) an international program to apply his strategies for “Comprehensive, Anticipatory Design Science.” The program itself never took off, however the documents themselves show early ecological thinking in the 20th century. This trend chart from Document 6 produced by Fuller and his associate McHale, is one of dozens of maps and trend charts. It shows how the confluence of human communication and transportation technologies produce a "shrinking Earth." During the same decade that Gordon E. Moore predicted the acceleration curve of computing technologies (Moore’s Law), Fuller applied his comprehensive approach to map the global impact of what he termed “accelerating acceleration" and "ephemeralization."