Steve Job’s Google of the 60s: Whole Earth Catalog revisited (+ homestead tour of a former editor)

Steve Jobs called The Whole Earth Catalog “one of the bibles of my generation“. He went on to explain in his Stanford commencement speech in 2005, “It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions“. The Whole Earth Catalog was a kind of “unofficial handbook of the counterculture“. It was, pre-Internet, a way for anyone anywhere to tap into a global economy. Founder and editor Stewart Brand set out to create