The Last Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools

Categories: Computers & Technology, Reference

Stewart Brand's 1971 compendium of the counterculture's favorite tools, books and ideas, from homesteading and crafts to cybernetics and early computing. The catalog's "access to tools" ethos shaped a generation of builders and is often called a print precursor of the web.

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• Steve Jobs: “When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation... It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google…”