[melloclello]

A friend of mine is from Carbondale, Illinois - Fuller's home town. From what I understand it's a deadbeat midwestern hellhole now. He once told me a story about breaking into Buckminster Fuller's now-abandoned dome house and smoking weed in there.

tl;dr: the dream is over

[leashless]

The dream is alive. Look at http://hexayurt.com - massive adoption at Burning Man and huge potential (slowly being realized) for developing world use.

Times will change. Fuller's time is yet to come.

[RangerScience]

The upsides of a hexayurt are many. Done well, they're possibly the best housing on playa - definitely competitive with RVs, if you bring your own AC. Mine's lasted five years, and all I've had to do was replace the door panel (a door to the floor - resulting in a U shaped panel - is not the best plan).

But! These are, in my experience, the hard parts and downsides - not that they're insurmountable, or even all that difficult, but worth mentioning:

1) Doors are hard. No, really.

2) Storage & Transportation. (8ft by 4ft+ by 8in+)

3) Can't lean on the walls

4) Short doors get annoying, fast.

Anecdotally, I'm definitely seeing more hexayurts out there each year, particularly the small stretch designs (which are fantastic, btdubs)