He wanted us to beat our WWII warshares into plowshares. Instead we have done the opposite, creating a never-ending military industrial complex that siphons away money and engineering talent.

As renewable energies become more necessary, his idea of a globally linked grid to mitigate peak energy use times is still nothing more than a pipe dream.  

Fuller hypothesized that there were “gestation periods” for radical new technologies. But it seems to me that his most important work is permanently stillborn, and all we have left are space age looking domes for tourists to gawk at.