Geoscope

[1] It was envisioned that the Geoscope would be connected to computers which would allow it to display both historical and current data, and enable people to visualize large scale patterns around the world.

[1] Fuller did not limit his use of the term "Geoscope" to the 200 foot (61 m) diameter globe proposed for installation near the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City (on a ledge of rocks in the middle of the East River now named U Thant Island).

[4] In Fuller's book Critical Path he advocated for constructing many Geoscopes as large see-through spheres shaped and oriented like the planet Earth.

Computers for each Geoscope will "store all relevant inventories of world data arranged chronologically, in the order and spacing of discovery, as they have occurred throughout all known history".

[5] Time-lapse images projected onto the Geoscope would display in a matter of minutes all sorts of global, long-term trends, everything from continental drift to human migration to use of transportation.