Whole Earth Index \ stacker news ~meta

1472 sats \ 9 comments \ @kr 13 Oct 2023 meta

160 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 13 Oct 2023

Wow these are awesome, thanks

149 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 13 Oct 2023

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138 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 13 Oct 2023

I watched As We are Gods within the last year which is about Stewart Brand who started Whole Earth Catalog. As a self-proclaimed tech hippie, I love this tech hippie shite.

95 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 14 Oct 2023

This is a treasure trove. Flipping through randomly, came across this issue from 1985. From an article by Stewart Brand, Biting the Hand that Feeds I found this excerpt:

For the last couple years computers, especially personal computers, have been touted as the bearer of salvation for:

Children Householders The American economy Students Bored people The world economy Job-seekers Businesspeople . .. among others

And we bought it. And significant salvation occurred. Now that we've been saved, it's not too early to inquire about the real price.

Wonder how old Stewie would have felt about bitcoin fixing everything.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 15 Oct 2023

that’s a great question, he’s still putting out lots of writing and is active on twitter

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @031c97d678 14 Oct 2023

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DiracDelta 14 Oct 2023

Well

the real

"whole Earth index"

is bitcoin ;)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @llamabyte 13 Oct 2023

Please post to old.reddit.com/r/datahoarders

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 13 Oct 2023

I have no clue what this is.