"When the Whole Earth Catalog arrived in the Fall of 01968, it came bearing a simple, epochal label: ‘Access to Tools.’ As its editor and Long Now Co-founder Stewart Brand wrote in the introduction to that first edition, the goal was for the Catalog to serve as an ‘evaluation and access device’ for tools that empowered its readers ‘to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested.’ The key word in all of that idealistic declaration of purpose was ‘access.’ The Whole Earth Catalog did not intend to directly grant its readers this knowledge, wisdom, and mastery, but to provide a kaleidoscopic array of gateways from which they could attempt to find it themselves. ..."
The Long Now Foundation X: The Lasting Whole Earth Catalog
The Long Now Foundation X: Ideas
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