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Whole Earth Review (1985 - 2003) is a magazine which resulted after the merger of The Whole Earth Software Review and the CoEvolution Quarterly. All of these periodicals are descendants of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog. Whole Earth is now defunct. The articles from the last unpublished issue (#111, Spring, 2003, edited by Alex Steffen) were put on wholeearth.com here. Whole Earth editors Kevin Kelly and Howard Rheingold both went on to become influential figures in technology.
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Overview
Fred Turner discusses the creation of the Whole Earth Review in From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Turner notes that in 1983, The Whole Earth Software Review was proposed by John Brockman as a magazine which "would do for computing what the original [Whole Earth Catalog] had done for the counterculture: identify and recommend the best tools as they emerged." [1] The first issue was released in the Fall of 1984. It was a business failure, however, and was only published twice (with three quarterly reviews). [2] At the same time, another Brand publication, CoEvolution Quarterly evolved out of the original Whole Earth Supplement in 1974. In 1985, Brand merged CoEvolution Quarterly with The Whole Earth Software Review to create the Whole Earth Review. [3]
This is also indicated in the issues themselves. Fall 1984, Issue No. 43 is titled The Last CoEvolution Quarterly.The cover also states, "Next issue is 'Whole Earth Review': livelier snake, new skin." In January 1985, Issue No. 44 was titled Whole Earth Review: Tools and Ideas for the Computer Age. The cover also reads "The continuation of CoEvolution Quarterly and Whole Earth Software Review."
Its office was next door to The WELL. [4]
Notes
- ^ Fred Turner. From Counterculture to Cyberculture, (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006): 129.
- ^ Fred Turner. From Counterculture to Cyberculture, (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006): 130.
- ^ Fred Turner. From Counterculture to Cyberculture, (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006): 130.
- ^ Sausalito Journal; Whole Earth State-of-Art Rapping
References
- Turner, Fred (2006) From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-81741-5.
External links
- Official website
- Whole Earth Review Issues 1985-1996
- Whole Earth Review Issues 1997-2002
- "Breaking the mold again, Whole Earth Review is asking subscribers for charity" - New York Times
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