Silicon Valley: Ah! This is incredibly nice to see! Bay Area left-techno-utopianism, distilled and crystalized!:

Lawrence Wilkinson: “We are as gods and might as well get good at it”: ‘In 1968, Stewart Brand and small group of colleagues published the first Whole Earth Catalog…. “on the 55th anniversary of the publication of the original Whole Earth Catalog, Gray Area and the Internet Archive have made the Catalog freely available online…. Within the site’s grid of publications rests a cornucopia of writing and curation, from in-depth looks at space colonies to ecological analyses of the insurance industry to reporting on the state of the global teenager at the turn of the 01990s. The Whole Earth Index is a work of love, a noncommercial enterprise designed, as project lead and Gray Area Executive Director Barry Threw told Long Now Ideas, to “allow us to reflect on how we got to where we are and regain some of that connection to the countercultural world” of the Bay Area of the 1960s and 1970s… <roughlydaily.com/2023/10/17/we-are-as-g…>