Whole Earth Redux | Editor’s Note
Original essays, each of which pulls an artifact from the Whole Earth Index and plumbs its deeper histories, arguing for why it helps us understand our present, and add nuance to the Whole Earth legacy.
When the Whole Earth Catalog reached the public in 1968, it argued that technology could be personal, living could be communal, and information could be free. Its pages—dense with listings for books on cybernetics, how-to guides for constructing geodesic domes, and advertisements for mail order organic seeds—presented readers with supplies for forging a way of life compatible with both the dawning Information Age and the unfolding ecological crisis. This vision not only inspired a generation of back-to-the-land counterculturalists, but continues to color the aspirations of contemporary technof
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