Whole Earth Catalog
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The Whole Earth Catalog was an American counterculture magazine and product catalog. Stewart Brand, a biologist, photographer and writer, conceived the idea for it; he was the Catalog's original edito
The Fall 1969 issue of the Whole Earth Catalog
Stewart Brand in 2010
Earthrise, by William Anders, Apollo 8, 1968, the cover photo of the second and third editions
Buckminster Fuller
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Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishi
Whole Earth Catalog
…is something we do in common, interactively. The broad interpretation of "tool" coincided with that given by the designer, philosopher, and engineer Buckminster Fuller, though another thinker admired by Brand and some of his cohorts was Lewis Mumford, who had written about words as tools. Early editions reflected the…
Fuller in 1972
Fuller c. 1910
A 1933 Dymaxion prototype
The Montreal Biosphère by Buckminster Fuller, 1967