The Whole Earth Catalog, edited by Stewart Brand and first published in 1968, very quickly achieved cult status in American counterculture. This DIY-er's bible introduced people to the most advanced thinking of the time-from tensile structures to computers. That in itself should be enough to reserve Brand a place in the annals of architecture and design, but he was also present at the birth of many of the technologies that drive our lives today-assisting with the first demonstration of a mouse and of e-mail, and creating one of the first online communities, before the World Wide Web existed.
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