2025 . . . If (Buckminster Fuller in 1975)

[Conversation, beginning of 1975]. You ask, "where will the world be in 2025?" . . . Whether or not humans will be alive on our planet will however probably be resolved by cosmic evolution as early as 1985. We  don't have to wait until 2025 to find out. Human beings, unlike any other known phenomena, have  been given minds with which to discover abstract, weightless principles operating in Universe and  employ those principles . . . to solve evolutionarily occurring unprecedented metaphysical as well as physical problems. . . . Universe is eternally regenerative. Universe is everywhere continually inter-transforming in accordance with the abstract, weightless principles of which (so far as we know) only the human mind has cognizance. . . . Whether human beings will be on our planet in the 21st century depends on whether mind has come into complete control over muscle and physical power in general and as a consequence of which the world will at last be operational by humans for all humans. . . . Whether humanity will pass its final exams for such a future is dependent on you and me, not on somebody we elect or who elects themselves to represent us. We will have to make each decision both tiny and great with critical self examination — "Is this truly for the many or just for me?" If the latter prevails it will soon be "curtains" for all. We are in for the greatest revolution in history. If it's to pull the top down and it's bloody, all lose. If it is a design science revolution to elevate the bottom and all others as well to unprecedentedly new heights, all will live to dare spontaneously to speak and live and love the truth, strange though it often may seem. (from Co-Evolution Quarterly)