Buckminster Fuller has said that instead of reforms society needs new forms; e.g., in order toreduce traffic accidents, improve automobiles and highways instead of trying to improve drives. The same concept should be applied to human relations. There is a need to think in terms of social architecture, and to provide arrangements among people that evoke what they really want to see in themselves. Mankind takes great pains with physical architecture, and is beginning toconcern itself with the design of systems in which the human being is a component. But most of these designs are only for safety, efficiency, or productivity. System designs are not made to affect those aspects of life people care most about such as family life, romance, and esthetic experiences. Social technology as well as physical technology need to be applied in makinghuman arrangements that will transcend anything mankind has yet experienced. People need not be victimized by their environments; they can be fulfilled by them.
巴克明斯特·富勒曾经说过，社会需要的不是改革，而是要全新的模式。举例说，为了减少交通事故，那就改进汽车和公路，而不是试图去改进司机。这一观念也应运用到人际关系中去。有必要从社会结构的角度进行思考，提出一种人际安排，这种安排能够使人们自身释放出真正想见到的东西。人类一贯精心于有形的建筑，而现在开始关心起人作为其中组成部分的系统设计了。但是这些设计中的大部分，只是为了安全、效率和生产力。系统设计没有用来影响人们最关心的生活中的那些方面，例如家庭生活、爱情、美的享受。我们需要运用社会科学和自然科学的技术作出人际安排，这种安排将超越人类迄今为止的一切经验。人不应成为其环境的牺牲品，人可以通过自身的环境实现其价值。
The great frontier today is the exploration of the human potential, man's seemingly limitless ability to adapt, to grow, to invent his own destiny. There is much to learn, but we already know this: the future need not happen to us; we can make it happen.
现今最重大的研究领域是探索人的潜力，探索人类似乎是无限的适应能力、成长能力和自行设计自己命运的能力。我们尚有许多东西要学，但我们已经懂得这一点：我们不必坐等未来，我们可以造就未来。