Douglas Rushkoff’s top ten of favourite designer reality books.

‘ 1. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R Buckminster Fuller
Bucky Fuller’s most concise and compelling argument for how humankind might be able to survive and transcend its own compulsion for increased industrialisation and economic growth - through new, more consciously executed industrialisation and economic growth! His brief history of how the ‘great pirates’ dominated global politics and economics for centuries, installing puppet monarchs and harnessing the resources of entire nations goes a long way towards demonstrating the relationship between power and perception. ‘