ホール・アース・カタログの残したもの

ヒッピーのカウンター・カルチャーのバイブルであるスチュアート・ブランドStewart Brandが出版したホール・アース・カタログはホール・アース・レクトロニック・リンク(WELL)やワイアード・マガジンのお手本となった。ティム・オライリーも大学出たての頃にホール・アース・カタログの後継本であるCoEvolution Quarterlyに寄稿したりしているし、オライリーから出版されたWhole Internet User's Guide and Catalogはまるっきりホール・アース・カタログの名をコピーしたものになっている。またホール・アース・カタログは現在のDIYムーブメントのはしりで、オライリーのMAKEマガジンはそれを受け継ぐものといえる。

they transformed American notions of technology and particularly, of computers. They shaped the defining notions of our digital world, including “personal” computing, virtual community, and the vision of cyberspace as an electronic frontier. They helped give rise to such influential venues as the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (or WELL) and Wired magazine. And in the process, they transformed the ideals of the generation of 1968 into a deeply optimistic vision of the social potential of digital technologies.
I'll add myself to their legacy. I didn't get to know Stewart till long afterwards, when O'Reilly was already a household name among geeks, but I nonetheless consider him one of my earliest and most important mentors. My first attempts to get published, right out of college, were some small articles that I sent to CoEvolution Quarterly, Stewart's successor to the Whole Earth Catalog. (A couple of them were accepted, but never published.) We shamelessly copied the name of the Whole Earth Catalog for our groundbreaking Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, but that's the least of our debts to Stewart and crew. A huge amount of the O'Reilly sensibility, a mix of practicality and idealism, was learned from the Whole Earth Catalog. And of course, the Whole Earth Catalog is one of the wellsprings of the modern DIY movement, for which Make: magazine is now carrying the torch.

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/the_legacy_of_t.html