The Whole Earth Effect — Plenty Magazine

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Eyalnow bookmarked on 2008-10-27 magazine publishing whole-earth-catalog kevin-kelly collaboration

“We are as gods and we might as well get good at it.”
Comprehensive in this way, the WEC was a catalyst, helping transform a set of disparate individualists into a potent community
But the hippies came along and wanted to share everything. Whatever they discovered, they just wanted to broadcast. The WEC was the very best example of this.”

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eyal matsliah
magazine publishing whole-earth-catalog kevin-kelly collaboration
- “We are as gods and we might as well get good at it.”
- Comprehensive in this way, the WEC was a catalyst, helping transform a set of disparate individualists into a potent community
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- - But the hippies came along and wanted to share everything. Whatever they discovered, they just wanted to broadcast. The WEC was the very best example of this.”
16 Sep 08

Gerhard Stoltz
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- As Lloyd Kahn, the catalog’s shelter editor, says, “The beatniks had a negative, existential vibe. They weren’t into sharing. But the hippies came along and wanted to share everything. Whatever they discovered, they just wanted to broadcast. The WEC was the very best example of this.”