Empowering Global Citizens

5. The evolution of the invention
a. How the invention has changed over time
b. How it has gotten better and worse
C. What it will look like in the future
6. The impact of the invention:
a. How it has impacted society
b. How it has impacted culture
c. New inventions that it made possible

They should show the technology and its aspects at different stages, and

then they should try to envision what the technology could look like in fifty

years. They will present the evolution of the technology to the rest of the

class.

Resources

° Buckminster Fuller Institute (http://www.bfi.org/)
' PBS’s American Masters “Bucky Fuller” (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/
americanmasters/episodes/r—buckminster—fuller/about—r—buckmin—

ster—fuller/599/)

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