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: hippies and other back-to-earthers, like those of the Arts and Crafts era, valued making things by hand in reaction to mass culture. The Whole Earth Catalog, that iconic book of the seventies, has a chapter dedicated to calligraphy, and a brisk business developed in calligraphy pens and instruction manuals and offering
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Vindolanda tablets, here Virgil, here Visigothic script, here voice recognition software, here, here Wallace, David Foster, here, here, here wax tablets, here website designs, here Whole Earth Catalog, here Willins, Stella, here Wolf, Maryanne, here, here, here Wolfe, Heather, here women as clerks, here Italian hand used by, here restrictions on literacy of
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hardly the first to invoke “natural” laws or biological metaphors in talking about the internet. Southern California’s tech culture had been shaped by both Whole Earth Catalog-tinged counterculture2 and Joseph Schumpeter-inspired “evolutionary” capitalism. But Barlow’s treatise gave such views a wider audience. The essay was quickly mirrored on forty
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of how field observation can reveal the difference between the way we think we do things and the way we actually do them. If the Whole Earth Catalog still existed, this book and Why We Buy would both be in it. > THE PRACTICE OF CREATIVITY: A MANUAL FOR DYNAMIC GROUP PROBLEM SOLVING George
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and who was influenced by Stewart Brand, a proponent of psychedelic drugs who hung out with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Brand created the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founded the WELL, one of the first online communities. Its members included John Perry Barlow, who wrote lyrics for the Grateful Dead and
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run the show. 3. DOCTOROW’S THIRD LAW Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, People Do BACK IN 1984, Stewart Brand—founder of the Whole Earth Catalog—had a public conversation with Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak at the first Hackers Conference. There, Brand uttered a few dozen famous words: “On the one
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that era’s zeitgeist of rebellion and utopian hopes. In a 1995 essay titled “We Owe It All to the Hippies,” the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, Stewart Brand, wrote that “the counterculture’s scorn for centralized authority provided the philosophical foundations of not only the leaderless Internet but also the entire
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and for rare, early vintage Levi’s (one pair from the 1880s recently went for nearly $100,000). Designers have similarly discovered meditation, yoga, and Whole Earth Catalog holism. Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website Goop offers merchandise like a two-piece meditation pillow set (covered in “plush high-pile chenille”) for $290 and
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someone that has been vetted by other people in your industry. Self-Education: Information Wants to Be Free In 1984, at the first Hackers Conference, Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand was overheard telling Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak the now iconic phrase: “Information wants to be free.” The internet has done more
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