id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15918 Schneiter, Tom Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 327p. alk. paper, $29 (ISBN 0226817415). LC 2005-34149. 2008-01-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1345 62 62 Infl uenced by Norbert Wiener’s theories of cybernetics and by R. Buckminster Fuller’s approach to systems, Brand continued pushing forward, with the unsuccessful Whole Earth Soft ware Catalog, which proved too difficult to keep updated due to rapid de- 92 College & Research Libraries velopment in the area, the more successful Whole Earth Review, and the Co-Evolution Quarterly, the former of which is still in publication as Whole Earth. In 1968, Stewart Brand edited the first newsprint edition of the WEC, with a group of friends and helpers collecting and reviewing outlets for information— many of which were product catalogs, specifically for the New Communalist movement—and for those who were abandoning society for the supposed refuge of primitive rural life. cache/crl-15918.pdf txt/crl-15918.txt