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The '''Geoscope''' was a proposal by [[Buckminster Fuller]] in 1962 to create a {{convert|200|ft|m|adj=mid|-diameter}} globe, which would be covered in colored lights so that it could function as a large spherical display. It was envisioned that the Geoscope would be connected to computers which would allow it to display both historical and current data, and enable people to visualize large scale patterns around the globe.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org/node/564 |title=R. Buckminster Fuller's Geoscope |publisher=Buckminster Fuller Institute |author=Buckminster Fuller Institute |accessdate=2009-05-23}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
[[File:Epcot IllumiNations- Reflections of Earth 1.jpg|thumb|A large video globe used in the ''[[IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth]]'' show (1999–2019) at [[Epcot]] theme park resembled Buckminster Fuller's earlier Geoscope proposal.]]
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The '''Geoscope''' was a proposal by [[Buckminster Fuller]] around 1960 to create a {{convert|200|ft|m|adj=mid|-diameter}} [[globe]] that would be covered in colored lights so that it could function as a large spherical [[Display device|display]].<ref name=DeVarco/> It was envisioned that the Geoscope would be connected to computers which would allow it to display both historical and current data, and enable people to visualize large scale patterns around the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/geoscope/geoscope-quotes/ |title=Geoscope quotes |website=www.bfi.org |publisher=Buckminster Fuller Institute |author=Buckminster Fuller Institute |accessdate=2022-11-26}}</ref> Several projects by his students to build a "miniature Earth", starting with a 20-foot version at [[Cornell University]] in 1952, were precursors of the Geoscope proposal.<ref name=DeVarco/> Before proposing the Geoscope, Fuller had invented the [[Dymaxion map]], a novel [[map projection]] for the whole Earth.<ref name=DeVarco/>


Many of Fuller's ideas for the functions of the Geoscope are now being realized by [[virtual globes]].
Many of Fuller's ideas for the functions of the Geoscope are now being realized by [[virtual globe]]s.<ref name=DeVarco>{{cite web |last=DeVarco |first=Bonnie |title=Geoscope |website=www.bfi.org |publisher=Buckminster Fuller Institute |url=https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/geoscope/ |access-date=2022-11-26}}</ref>


Fuller did not limit his use of the term "Geoscope" to the {{Convert|200| foot}} diameter globe proposed for installation near the [[United nations|U.N.]] He also used it to refer to smaller globes to be viewed from the inside outwards toward the stars.
Fuller did not limit his use of the term "Geoscope" to the {{Convert|200|foot}} diameter globe proposed for installation near the [[United Nations]] in New York. He also used it to refer to smaller globes to be viewed from the inside outwards toward the stars.{{sfn|Fuller|1981|p=172}}


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In Fuller's book ''Critical Path'' he advocated for constructing many Geoscopes as large see-through spheres shaped and oriented like the planet Earth. By standing inside, one could 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".{{sfn|Fuller|1981|p=180}} Time-lapse images projected onto the Geoscope would 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.{{sfn|Fuller|1981|p=180–184}}
He states in his book ''Critical Path'':
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{{Quotation|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."}}


== References ==
== See also ==
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* [[Data fusion]]
* [[Data visualization]]
* [[Digital Earth]]
* [[Earth observation]]
* [[Fulldome video]]
* [[Geovisualization]]
* [[Historical geographic information system]]
* {{slink|IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth#Earth Globe}}
* [[Macrohistory]]
* [[Macroscope (science concept)]]
* [[Planetarium]]
* [[Sphere (venue)]]
* [[Video wall]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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* {{cite magazine |last=Baldwin |first=Jay |author-link=James T. Baldwin |date=Fall 1990 |title=World Game |magazine=[[Whole Earth Review]] |issue=68 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/whole_earth_review_68/page/n31 30–31] |url=https://archive.org/details/whole_earth_review_68/page/n31}}
* {{cite book |last=Fuller |first=R. Buckminster |date=1962 |title=Education Automation: Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies: A Discourse Before the Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Campus Planning Committee, April 22, 1961 |location=Carbondale |publisher=[[Southern Illinois University Press]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/educationautoma000full/page/48 48–51] |oclc=184847 |url=https://archive.org/details/educationautoma000full/page/48 |url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last=Fuller |first=R. Buckminster |date=1969 |orig-year=1965 |chapter=Keynote Address at Vision 65 |title=Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity |series=Bantam Matrix Editions |location=Toronto |publisher=[[Bantam Books]] |oclc=107190 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/utopiaoroblivion00rbuc/page/153 |chapter-url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last=Fuller |first=R. Buckminster |date=1981 |chapter=The Geoscope |title=Critical Path |location=New York |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/criticalpath0000full/page/161 161–197] |isbn=0312174888 |oclc=6735342 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/criticalpath0000full/page/161 |chapter-url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last=Keats |first=Jonathon |author-link=Jonathon Keats |date=2016 |chapter=Planning: The Geoscope |title=You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future |location=Oxford; New York |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/youbelongtounive0000keat/page/93 93–114] |isbn=9780199338238 |oclc=917131678 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/youbelongtounive0000keat/page/93 |chapter-url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last=McHale |first=John |author-link=John McHale (artist) |date=1966 |chapter=Towards A Dynamic 'World' Education |editor-last=Mudd |editor-first=Stuart |editor-link=Stuart Mudd |title=Conflict Resolution and World Education |series=[[World Academy of Art and Science]] book series |volume=3 |location=The Hague |publisher=W.&nbsp;Junk |pages=[https://archive.org/details/conflictresoluti0000unse_r9w6/page/173 173–179] |oclc=1093044 |doi=10.1007/978-94-017-6269-4_20 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/conflictresoluti0000unse_r9w6/page/173 |chapter-url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last=Pesce |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Pesce |date=2000 |chapter=The Green Goddess |title=The Playful World: How Technology Is Transforming Our Imagination |location=New York |publisher=[[Ballantine Books]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/playfulworldhowt00pesc/page/237 237–246] |isbn=0345439430 |oclc=45132987 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/playfulworldhowt00pesc/page/237 |chapter-url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book |last=Sieden |first=Lloyd Steven |date=1989 |chapter=Expanding the View |title=Buckminster Fuller's Universe: An Appreciation |location=New York |publisher=[[Plenum Press]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/buckminsterfulle0000sied/page/241 241–269] (especially [https://archive.org/details/buckminsterfulle0000sied/page/259 259–269]) |isbn=0306431785 |oclc=18963281 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/buckminsterfulle0000sied/page/241}}
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== External links ==
* [https://www.fullerdome.org/the-dome Fuller Dome] – Geoscope-like [[geodesic dome]] at [[Southern Illinois University Edwardsville]]

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Latest revision as of 20:40, 21 October 2023

For the earthquake measuring network, see GEOSCOPE Observatory.
A large video globe used in the IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth show (1999–2019) at Epcot theme park resembled Buckminster Fuller's earlier Geoscope proposal.

The Geoscope was a proposal by Buckminster Fuller around 1960 to create a 200-foot-diameter (61 m) globe that would be covered in colored lights so that it could function as a large spherical display.[1] It was envisioned that the Geoscope would be connected to computers which would allow it to display both historical and current data, and enable people to visualize large scale patterns around the world.[2] Several projects by his students to build a "miniature Earth", starting with a 20-foot version at Cornell University in 1952, were precursors of the Geoscope proposal.[1] Before proposing the Geoscope, Fuller had invented the Dymaxion map, a novel map projection for the whole Earth.[1]

Many of Fuller's ideas for the functions of the Geoscope are now being realized by virtual globes.[1]

Fuller did not limit his use of the term "Geoscope" to the 200 foot (61 m) diameter globe proposed for installation near the United Nations in New York. He also used it to refer to smaller globes to be viewed from the inside outwards toward the stars.[3]

In Fuller's book Critical Path he advocated for constructing many Geoscopes as large see-through spheres shaped and oriented like the planet Earth. By standing inside, one could 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".[4] Time-lapse images projected onto the Geoscope would 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.[5]

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d DeVarco, Bonnie. "Geoscope". www.bfi.org. Buckminster Fuller Institute. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
  2. ^ Buckminster Fuller Institute. "Geoscope quotes". www.bfi.org. Buckminster Fuller Institute. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
  3. ^ Fuller 1981, p. 172.
  4. ^ Fuller 1981, p. 180.
  5. ^ Fuller 1981, p. 180–184.

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