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Getting started on Fuller. He seems to equate the economic growth from 1810 to present with technology and intellect but it is entirely impossible without the near 1:1:1 increase in population, GDP, and therefore, energy consumption, that was available after the discovery of fossil fuel.
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He spoke in a strange dialect.
And understood the compounding of knowledge.
His 'growth from technology' starts with the 'deep-bellied' sailing ship invented in Thailand thousands of years ago.
He came out of a New England Transcendentalist family, and he was extremely 'mystical' but believed his insights had to be embodied in practical artifacts. Like
Scheherazade_numbers.
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Which still doesn't address the density and storage problem of converting electricity to work in large farm, mining, construction machines. Our tractors will need some mighty long extension cords.
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It is what it is, we'll deal with it or go down in flames.
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What will actually happen is that most people remaining will grow their own food by muscle power after the age of fossil fuel.
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Else we will realize it's more efficient to grow food and smokables in LED light underground.