Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, and inventor — designer of the geodesic dome and originator of the “World Game” concept: a simulation and coordination tool for solving humanity’s problems using the planet’s total resources cooperatively rather than competitively. wwz’s founding documents explicitly frame it as “Buckminster Fuller’s World Game made real,” positioning the Worldwide Zettelkasten as the semantic knowledge infrastructure that Fuller’s World Game always required but lacked.