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Where forward thinking terrestrials share ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction. Introduction

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This is such wonderful pearl catalog and I've never heard about before!
See what Kevin Kelly explain about and enjoy checking out the website.

"Lifehacking, the Whole Earth Catalog Archive

The Whole Earth Catalogs preached the hacker/designer approach to life starting in 1968, decades before this lifehacking became the norm. The Catalogs were a paper-based database offering thousands of hacks, tips, tools, suggestions, and possibilities for optimizing your life.

... The Whole Earth Catalogs and CoEvolutions were idea-based journalism, rather than event-based. Instead of reporting on top of things, they liked to get to the bottom of things. These issues zagged while the rest of the culture zigged, only to zag later.

... The good news is that all this goodness is now online.

... The entire 35-year archive of Whole Earth Catalogs, Supplements, Reviews and CoEvolutions are all up and ready to be studied. You can read them for free, or download them for a fee. Go here.

... There are some very are early Whole Earth Catalog Supplements that in all my time at Whole Earth I never saw or read. They are here online now. For those unfamiliar with the wisdom of the Catalog, this archive will serve as a wonderful start. There are more than 100 issues of CoEvolution Quarterly (later called Whole Earth Review) and dozens of Whole Earth Catalogs to keep you up for years."

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Interesting...

"Thinking is FM - frequency modulation - for it results in tuning out of irrelevancies as a result of definitive resolution of the exclusivity turned-in or accepted feed-back messages' differentiatability." [sic]

From No More Secondhand God, Buckminster Fuller, 1963
Reviewed in Fall 1968 Whole Earth Catalog, p.4

"I find that the model of hypertext has become the metaphor via which my thoughts, my research, finds form. I can't read one book at a time. Instead I skip between many, following an annotation in one, buying a bibiliographed reference, dipping into books by the same or similar authors in the bookstore, scribbling notes in one book about another. I make the world my internet; the library my world wide web...

The forms metaphors take say a lot about the culture they emerged from. The model, in many aspects, is not important: The metaphor is the message.

From obvious' hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"
(my emphasis)

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