Day 4: Buckminsterfullerene and Tibetian Monks
“An universal set of building rules seems to guide all organic structures.”
That is how Victoria saw the world. That is how I want to see the world. That is how we should strive to see the world. After all, it may not be that abstract. Perhaps it’s our fear of adhering to the rules that deter us from following the given path. 
Perhaps there is no path that we should follow. Perhaps it is possible for all of us to follow multiple paths as Victoria did in her search for art. From design school, to controlling the human body through a series of computerized images, the paths to her life were entwined. (To the left: Diverging pathway that many go through in their life choices)
Synergy. The energy of several forces to a single greater force, it is the underlying current to all life. Like the atoms that join to form the miracle of a molecule and the molecules that form the miracle of tissue and so on and so forth, we are all smaller parts in a larger scheme of life. 
The Buckminster Fuller ball emulates this as the many panels that make this naturally occurring structure possible, all work to make a sphere possible. Imagine the impossible. Thousands of small triangles to form a sphere. Like tetrahedrons to spheres, we must think in ways that don’t make sense in order to accomplish our goals. (To the right is a rotating buckminster ball diagram)
Visual representation of synergy
Fuller once asked “Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?” Here is an advocate of nature, a man who observes the natural and understands its versatility. How can we shy away from the opportunity to venture into nanotechnology if we fear that it might outstrip nature’s evolution? Nature to this point, has been the most durable and self-selective process available to maximize the potential of life. Even as we make our projects and our proposals, we find ourselves realizing that so much of what our body naturally does is brilliant and hard to improve. However, nanotechnology’s duty now is to perfect that technology.
Links
http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/bucky.html
http://www.whitney.org/www/buckminster_fuller/about.jsp
http://www.soccerballworld.com/Construction.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&defl=en&q=define:synergy&ei=p0hbSpH4I4ewsgP3geWDCw&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
http://www.earthmamasweb.com/articles/conscious/buckminster.html