##A 12 64901 3 ##T ABOUT THE DISC ##A 12 8560 4 ##T Genesis and Purpose ##A 12 17724 5 ##T The Whole Earth Catalog The Whole Earth Catalog The classic handbook of the Òsmall is beautifulÓ revolution and the grand-daddy of do-it-yourself publishing. Started in 1968, the Whole Earth Catalog was the first general publication to review personal computers, leading up to the Whole Earth Software Catalog in 1984. For our latest advice, use the most recent version, the portable Essential Whole Earth Catalog (Doubleday, 1986). Ñ Kevin Kelly ##A 12 2461 6 ##T PURPOSE PURPOSE We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far remotely done power and glory Ñ as via government, big business, formal education, church Ñ has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains, a realm of intimate, personal power is developing Ñ the power of individuals to conduct their own education, find their own inspiration, shape their own environment, and share the adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the Whole Earth Catalogs. ##A 12 16098 7 ##T FUNCTION FUNCTION The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog is an evaluation and access device. It can help a user discover what is worth getting and how to get it. WeÕre here to point, not to sell. Text and graphics excerpted here are provided for the reader to aid in evaluating whatÕs being reviewed. We have no financial obligation or connection to any of the suppliers listed. We only review stuff we think is great. Why waste your time with anything else? An item is listed in this Catalog if it is deemed: 1. Useful as a tool, 2. Relevant to independent education, 3. High quality or low cost, 4. Easily available by mail. ##A 12 16183 8 ##T FUNCTION The listings are continually revised and updated according to the experience and suggestions of Catalog users and staff. Information here is accurate as of mid to late 1988. Latest news can be found in our magazine, the Whole Earth Review (Ù see review). ##A 12 5154 9 ##T ORDERING INFORMATION ORDERING INFORMATION Order items from the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog directly from the supplier or publisher. Do not order from us. We sell nothing but information. Consider these points of mail order etiquette; theyÕll make shopping by mail more pleasant for you and for the companies you are dealing with. 1. Write legibly. Say what you want on the outside of the envelope. Writing Òmail orderÓ or Òsubscription orderÓ will speed your transaction. You can usually request free information with an inexpensive postcard. ##A 12 21935 10 ##T ORDERING INFORMATION 2. Expect prices to rise. The prices shown here are accurate as of mid to late 1988. Prices will be greater if you are ordering outside of the U.S. 3. DonÕt order from the excerpts of the catalogs weÕve reviewed. Catalog prices go out of date quickly. Request their latest brochure to get the latest specifications and prices. 4. Include sales tax if the supplier is in the state you are ordering from. 5. Use the phone. Most companies will be happy to bill your credit card if you need something quickly. Even if you arenÕt in a hurry ##A 12 36675 11 ##T ORDERING INFORMATION itÕs worth a phone call to check prices or to make sure what you want is in stock. DonÕt be shy to make use of a companyÕs 800 toll-free number; they have bought one because it increases their business. 6. Use International Money Orders (IMOÕs) to send money abroad. You can get them at the post office. DonÕt send a personal check. 7. Be patient. It takes at least two weeks for your goods to arrive; four to six weeks is normal. Make a photocopy of your order before you send it. 8. Be gentle. If you need to complain, remember your goal is ##A 12 36384 12 ##T ORDERING INFORMATION resolution, not revenge. If you are polite and specific, the person at the other end will likely deal with your problem sooner. Include your name and full address (with zip code) every time you write or call. 9. Be considerate. DonÕt send away for stuff just to keep your mailbox full. If something free is worth your writing for, itÕs probably worth including a stamped, self-addressed envelope (SASE). It guarantees a fast response. 10. You donÕt have to buy it. DonÕt forget libraries, user groups, and schools. Libraries can get you most any book in the world if you are willing to wait for the inter-library loan network to do its ##A 12 37480 13 ##T ORDERING INFORMATION magic. They also have growing collections of videos, CDÕs, and tape cassettes. User groups have massive libraries of public domain software. Many schools have inexpensive adult education classes that afford you a chance to use and try out expensive equipment. And then there are friends . . . . ##A 12 20722 14 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES by Stewart Brand The Whole Earth Catalog got started in a plane over Nebraska in March 1968. I was on the way back to California from burying my father in my hometown in Illinois Ñ a man who loved shopping in mail order catalogs. The sun had set ahead of the plane while I sat reading Spaceship Earth by Barbara Ward. Between chapters, I gazed out the window into dark nothing and slipped into a reverie about how I could help my friends who were starting their own civilization hither and yon with communes in the sticks. The L.L. Bean Catalog of outdoor stuff came to mind, and I pondered upon Mr. BeanÕs service to humanity over the years. So many of the problems I could identify came down to a matter of access: where ##A 12 21357 15 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES to buy a windmill; where to get good information on beekeeping; where to lay hands on a computer (in those days no easy task). Shortly, I was fantasizing an access service. A truck store, maybe, traveling around with information and samples of what was worth getting and advice on how to use it and where to get it. And a catalog, continuously updated Ñ in part by the users. A catalog that owed nothing to the suppliers and everything to the users. It would be something that I could put some years into. Amid the fever I was in by this time, I remembered Buckminster FullerÕs admonition that you have about ten minutes to act on an idea before it recedes back into dreamland, so I started writing up the scheme in the end papers of Barbara WardÕs book (never did finish reading it). ##A 12 21527 16 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES One of the main things that drove me into business was ignorance. A liberally educated young man, I hadnÕt the faintest how the world worked. Bargaining, distribution, mark-up, profit, bankruptcy, lease, invoice, fiscal year, inventory Ñ they were all a mystery to me and were usually depicted as sordid. That was then; tastes have changed, perhaps too far the other way. At the time, in fact, finances were not particularly on my mind. How To Make Money was not the design problem. (IÕd heard and bought Ken KeseyÕs advice that you donÕt make money by making money: you have that in mind early on, but then you forget it and concentrate entirely on good product; the money comes to pass. Michael Phillips later stated it: Do what you love; the money will come.) The problem was How to Generate a Low-Maintenance, High-Yield, Self-Sustaining, Critical Information Service. ##A 12 6167 17 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES Easy. You name what you know is good stuff and indicate exactly where to get it. You do this on newsprint, which costs half of the next-higher paper stock. Low overhead at every step. Employ stone amateurs with energy and enthusiasm. Build furniture out of scrap doors, light tables out of scrap plywood, work in whatever space you have. Pay your pros $5/hour (no raises) and the beginners $2/hour with $.25/hour raises every couple months Ñ in 1968 that was good money. Employees fill out their own time sheets. If they get dishonest about that Ñ or anything that hurts service Ñ fire them. Spread responsibility as far as it will go, credit too. What youÕre trying to do is nourish and design an organism that can learn and stay alive while itÕs learning. Once that process hits its stride, donÕt tinker with it; work for it, let it work for you. Make interesting demands on each other. ##A 12 7101 18 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES By June 1969, we were being mentioned in underground papers such as the East Village Other. And then Nicholas von Hoffman wrote a full column on the Whole Earth Catalog that got syndicated all over the U.S. We were caught. We were famous. Of all the press notices we eventually got, from Time and Vogue to Hotcha! in Germany to a big article in Esquire, nothing had the business impact of one tiny mention in ÒUncle Ben SezÓ in the Detroit Free Press, where some reader asked, ÒHow do we start a farm?Ó and Uncle Ben printed our address. We got hundreds and hundreds of subscriptions from that. We hired more people. Deposits at the bank were more frequent. The bank officers got more polite. In September 1969, as I was driving up the hill from Menlo Park to ##A 12 7175 19 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES work (Catalog production was in a garage in the hills), it suddenly hit me that I didnÕt want to. Instead of golden opportunity, the publication was becoming a grim chore. I considered the alternatives of taking my medicine like a good boy or setting about passing my job to somebody else. IÕm sure I sighed unhappily. And then this other notion glimmered. Keep the job, finish the original assignment, and then stop. Stop a success, and see what happens. Experiment going as well as coming. We printed in the September 1969 Supplement that we would cease publication with a big Catalog, The Last Whole Earth Catalog, in Spring of 1971. Meanwhile, business was still growing. The morning mail was a daily, heavy Santa Claus bag. Our stopping was primarily an economic experiment. Rather than ##A 12 23069 20 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES do the usual succession things, we preferred to just cease supply and let demand create its own sources. Our hope was that those sources would be more diverse and better than we had been, or could have been if we had continued. So, in June 1971, we had the Demise Party celebrating the self-termination of the Whole Earth Catalog, and all in all it was a rout. Fifteen hundred people showed up. San FranciscoÕs Exploratorium staff had their museum weirding around us full steam. At midnight, Scott Beach announced from the stage that these here two hundred $100 bills, yes, $20,000, were now the property of the party-goers, just as soon as they could decide what to do with them. ÒFlush them down the toilet!Ó ÒNo, donÕt!Ó ÒGive it to the Indians!Ó ÒBangladesh!Ó ÒOur commune needs a pump or weÕll all get ##A 12 23570 21 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES hepatitis!Ó And so on. The debate lasted till nine oÕclock the next morning, when a dozen remaining hardcore party-goers turned the remaining $15,000 ($5,000 had been distributed to the crowd at one wild point) over to Fred Moore, dishwasher. He later gathered people for other group decidings over what to do with the money. Most of the story, Rolling StoneÕs account, is in The Seven Laws of Money, by Michael Phillips. After burning our bridges, we reported before the Throne to announce, ÒWeÕre here for our next terrific idea.Ó The Throne said, ÒThat Was It.Ó In 1971 we had ceased making Whole Earth Catalogs forever, sincerely expecting that someone would quickly come along and ##A 12 23856 22 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES fill the niche better than we did. Well, they didnÕt. The Last Whole Earth Catalog won the National Book Award in 1972 and continued to sell 5,000 copies a week with increasingly outdated information. (It also made about $1.5 million, against zero overhead. So I set up Point Foundation, and we gave the money away to assorted effective individuals.) We half-heartedly updated the ÒlastÓ Catalog in 1973 and 1975 and added what amounted to Volume II in 1974: The Whole Earth Epilog . Simultaneously we began a journal called the CoEvolution Quarterly (CQ). I had been wanting to call it ÒThe Never Piss Against The Wind Newsletter,Ó or perhaps ÒMaking Circuit.Ó I did have a formula in mind: we would print long technical pieces on whatever interested us Ñ the opposite of the predigested pap in, ##A 12 24126 23 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES say, Intellectual Digest. So the Spring 1974 CQ had Paul Ehrlich on coevolution, Roy Rappaport and Howard Odum on energy and culture, Sam Keen on spiritual tyranny, and a nice reception from readers. We had printed 5,000 copies of the 96-page Spring CQ and sold them all. The Summer CQ sold out 10,000 copies immediately; we had another 7,000 printed. By Winter 1979, we had put out 24 issues of CQ. For years we resisted the standing temptation to do a new version of the Catalog because of the sheer labor involved. Then Art Kleiner, University of California/Berkeley journalism graduate, indicated that he would like to work with us. In the brutal/apologetic tones you would use asking someone to scrub the toilets, I said, ÒArt, how would you like to handle the compiling of a new Whole Earth ##A 12 24561 24 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES Catalog? That includes working on the distribution deal and production and printing, as well as contacting all of the old listees for their recent information and making final sense out of the doubtless-conflicting evaluation messages from the editors.Ó ÒSure,Ó he said. If Art was that brave, I guessed we could be. Then began the sift through everything in the Whole Earth Catalog, the Whole Earth Epilog, and 24 issues of CoEvolution Quarterly to identify, update, and assemble the best. New prices, new addresses, new covers, new excerpts (from catalogs and magazines), and often new reviews. Called The Next Whole Earth Catalog, it had 608 ##A 12 24664 25 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES folio-size pages, reviewed 3,907 items, and weighed 5 1/2 pounds. Before the ink was dry on the first 1980 edition, work began on a second edition that appeared in 1981. By 1983 the personal computer market was booming. John Brockman, our literary agent in New York, suggested we ought to do a Whole Earth Catalog of software. A few months later an eight-page proposal netted Point the biggest advance for a nonfiction paperback book in history Ñ $1.3 million. That project saved a struggling Whole Earth operation, and also nearly destroyed it. To meet the size and schedule of the project, Whole Earth staff more than doubled, and a raft of new people brought with them from the computer business different salary expectations than we were used to in the humble magazine business. Software turned out to ##A 12 25040 26 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES be vastly more difficult to review than books Ñ everything important is deeply hidden. Then I made the mistake Ñ the biggest in our history Ñ of assuming that a computer magazine would be the way to work into the book, the way CoEvolution had always served the Catalogs. The Whole Earth Software Review (ÒThe Magazine of Fine ComputingÓ) came out in Spring 1984 in full color and ReadersÕ Digest size, with no ads (as usual), and expensive promotion. It died ignominiously with the third issue in the midst of a personal computer market bust. Meanwhile, editor Barbara Robertson assembled an innovative and eclectic, masterly book in the Whole Earth Software Catalog. It got great reviews, and it sold some 150,000 copies, which is outstanding in usual terms but poor in ##A 12 25210 27 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES terms of its advance. In 1985 we brought out a wholly revised and updated Version 2.0 of the Software Catalog, and quit. We had spent the $1.3 million advance making the book, and no more money would come in from sales. Right idea, wrong medium. Personal computer software moves much too quickly to be reviewed usefully in books. Wrenching as it was, the Software Catalog venture carried Whole Earth into a new and fruitful watershed. It brought us computer technology early and deep. It brought us Kevin Kelly, an information addict who was hired to edit CoEvolution while the rest of us wrestled with the computers. It encouraged me to take the hell off on sabbatical (to Africa, MIT, and Royal Dutch/Shell in ##A 12 25396 28 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES London) and only come part way back. Kevin sharpened the editorial edge of CoEvolution (by then renamed Whole Earth Review) and restored PointÕs ravaged finances. By 1986 Kevin and crew were ready to try a new version of the old Catalog. The Essential Whole Earth Catalog was a wonder of close-packed information, edited by the same J. Baldwin who was the senior editor of this CD. It was solid proof that Whole Earth was healthy and ready to take on a new generation of tool evaluation, in new directions, with new textures. By 1987 Kevin and Apple Computer were discussing a possible collaboration, using Whole Earth material as a demonstration of the capabilities of a new kind of software that had been developed ##A 12 25714 29 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES by one Bill Atkinson. Bill called it ÒWild CardÓ; it would soon hit the market as ÒHyperCardÓ Ñ the lauded New Thing in personal computers that year. Not apparent at first was that HyperCard could be a splendid front end and authoring system for the vast reaches of data storable in CDÐROMs, but that was AppleÕs plot all along, and we were becoming part of it. With money and the loan of people such as Tim Oren from Apple, parts of The Essential Whole Earth Catalog were rendered into ROM and demoed to the public with the announcement of AppleÕs CDÐROM machine. At this point Doug Carlston bought in. Doug had been on PointÕs Board of Directors for years, and he had been considering how to get his software company, Br¿derbund, into the CDÐROM business. With luck, The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog might be the first in ##A 12 27004 30 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES a long list of electronic titles from his shop. For us at Whole Earth the attractions of CDÐROM were multiplying. First was the lure of exploring a new medium. We had pioneered Òdesktop publishingÓ fifteen years before most of the world, and we yearned for the old freedom of working in a form not yet burdened by accepted practices. Then came the size problems. That 5 1/2 pound Next Whole Earth Catalog showed us we couldnÕt get any larger in print. It made a dent in your chest to read in bed. But cutting out good stuff Ñ good products, good quotes from books and magazines, intriguing side issues Ñ grieved us constantly. In CDÐROM we found a medium which was both larger and smaller in just the right ways. We could jam in all the good stuff, and the ÒbookÓ would fit in a jacket pocket. ##A 12 27227 31 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES Because our books had always been self-produced, we were accustomed to a level of cross-reference not possible in most books. With HyperCard we could at last pursue cross-referencing a whole dimension further: all the related pieces of information on the disk could know about each other. Best of all, many of those pieces of information could be sound! Being able to randomly access and sample sound was not only new to books, it was new to the audio industry. We would be first out with a catalog that let you shop with your ears. Our inability to cover music well had always frustrated us. With CDÐROM, the Whole Earth Catalog, was getting to become more of the tool it had wanted to be since 1968. ItÕs a significant step toward . . . Well, how about an electronic Whole Earth Truck ##A 12 33339 32 ##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES Store that drives up in front of your virtual door with every great tool in the world in it, ready to be tried, borrowed, purchased, learned from? ##A 12 57549 33 ##T Staff and Business ##A 12 44130 34 ##T STAFF STAFF Senior Editor: J. Baldwin Editors: Jeanne Carstensen Jonathan Evelegh Richard Kadrey Candida Kutz Richard Nilsen Production Editors: Keith Jordan Candida Kutz Hank Roberts ##A 12 44421 35 ##T STAFF Project Manager: Keith Jordan Product Manager: Joanne Bealy (Br¿derbund Software) Programming: Mike Coffey (Br¿derbund Software) Tim Oren (Apple Computer) Jack Trainor (Br¿derbund Software) Graphic Design: Kathleen OÕNeill Mark Faigenbaum ##A 12 34762 36 ##T STAFF Sound Digitizing: Jonathan Evelegh Graphic Digitizing: Laura Benne Mark Faigenbaum Dick Fugett Access Updating: Lisa Geduldig Keying: James Donnelly Christel Sweet ##A 12 36308 37 ##T STAFF Marketing: Ruth Friedman (Br¿derbund Software) Richard Schauffler Software Testing Br¿derbund Quality Assurance Department Special thanks to: Mark Zimmerman for the Texas Search Engine Whole Earth Booklet: J. Baldwin Kathleen OÕNeill Keith Jordan ##A 12 37033 38 ##T STAFF Inception: Stewart Brand Kevin Kelly Mike Liebhold (Apple Computer) Tim Oren (Apple Computer) Original Design: Kevin Kelly Kathleen OÕNeill Tim Oren (Apple Computer) ##A 12 37329 39 ##T STAFF Additional help from: Paul Blankinship Ramon Sender Barayon David Burnor Lori Woolpert Paul Davis The WELL Richard Ditzler Cindy Craig Fugett Katherine Gall Art Kleiner Pat Oren Robin Gail Ramsey Elaine Richards Susan Rosberg Don Ryan Susan Erkel Ryan ##A 12 44712 40 ##T THANK YOUS THANK YOUS Thanks to Br¿derbund Software: Doug Carlston Richard Whittaker Harry Wilker And thanks to the folks from Apple: Steve Cisler Fabrice Florin Ted Kaehler Carol Kaehler Alan Kay Sioux Lacey and especially to Bill Atkinson ##A 12 18482 41 ##T BUSINESS BUSINESS This product is the joint project of three organizations: Point Foundation, Br¿derbund Software, and Apple Computer. The content, that is all the words, pictures, and sounds on this compact disk, is the responsibility of Point Foundation. Point Foundation is a nonprofit organization mandated to encourage educational innovation, and to conjure up cultural inventions. PointUs primary activities are community-based electronic journalism (The WELL), and consumer-driven publishing (The Whole Earth Catalogs and Review). Revealing the process of how things happen, including how our own projects happen, is part of our educational program. To further its goal of making process transparent, Point regularly ##A 12 22316 42 ##T BUSINESS publishes an open accounting of pertinent money matters. We do this because most businesses donÕt. Without such a disclosure, the reality of a projectÕs deeper life and limitations remain hidden. (No project has ever had enough time or money allotted to it). Following the money in othersÕ endeavors is a crash course in getting oneÕs new thing done. To that education, hereÕs a back-of-the-napkin sketch of the financial biography of The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog. It was birthed in two general phases of funding. Apple Computer financed the first half, itself done in two phases -- a medium scale test of a fledgling HyperCard, and then later a large scale prototype version to premiere AppleÕs CD-ROM drive. Apple got a product they could demonstrate at shows, which not only worked, ##A 12 22645 43 ##T BUSINESS but wowed. Point cleared $34,729 in total, after deducting expenses from $107,000 income. The second phase was funded by Br¿derbund Software. Br¿derbund, a software publisher firmly established in the educational market for personal computers, was willing to bet that their future would involve CD-ROM. We had a half-finished product they respected. They gulped, put money where their dreams were, and signed over a $100,000 advance to complete the Electronic Catalog. ÒAdvanceÓ means that they paid us (in installments as work was completed) in advance of the royalties we could expect to earn from sales of this disc. If the Electronic Catalog was successful and sold more than about 8,000 discs then we would earn royalties beyond our advance. ##A 12 22789 44 ##T BUSINESS But, on the other hand, if the disc doesnÕt sell (or if AppleÕs CD-ROM drive doesnÕt sell), weÕd still keep our advance and Br¿derbund would be out one of the largest advances they have offered anyone, not to mention about an equal amount they invested into managing and packaging the product. Despite the large amounts in this second phase of development, both Br¿derbund and Point went into the red by it. Br¿derbund agreed to pay an additional $10,000 for our part, and delayed other of their projects in order to give the kind of attention we were demanding on this one. On PointÕs side, we spent $10,000 more on it (even deducting the additional $10,000) than we took in, because of obsessive addictions to doing things right. We re-recorded portions of the music many times, re-scanned ##A 12 29653 45 ##T BUSINESS one-quarter of the pictures when a better process came along midway, and re-checked addresses and prices for EVERYTHING in this version despite their maddening ephemeral nature. WeÕre in the hole ten grand. Br¿derbund is out on a limb for a hundred grand. Paying attention to money doesnÕt mean you let it write all the rules. A favorite game weÕre playing says: do what you love, as well as you can, and the money (just enough) will follow. HereÕs to Just Enough. Ñ Kevin Kelly A brief financial statement is next, followed by additional notes. ##A 12 47024 46 ##T BUSINESS Apple Phase Br¿derbund Phase INCOME: Payments Received 107,000 110,000 (Note 1) EXPENSES: Payroll (2) 41,504 99,445 Payroll Taxes 5,395 12,928 Direct Expenses (3) 1,965 6,871 Contributors (4) 0 1,318 Toward GenÕl Overhead (5) 23,407 0 ------ ------ Total Expenses 72,271 120,562 Profit (Loss) 34,729 (10,562) ##A 12 37638 47 ##T BUSINESS NOTES: (1) Payroll was obviously our biggest single expense. PointÕs contribution alone represents approximately 12,500 hours work Ñ and this does not include the hours of the people provided by Apple Computer and Br¿derbund Software. (2) ÒDirect ExpensesÓ is for phone, postage, additional rent for this project, blank diskettes, etc. It includes some hardware expenses, though most of our hardware was provided by Apple and Br¿derbund. (3) ÒContributorsÓ is money paid to authors of reviews and articles Ñ a small amount for this project since nearly all the ##A 12 38070 48 ##T BUSINESS material was either reprinted from recent Catalogs or written by editors working on this project on an hourly basis. (4) What keeps Point Foundation afloat is that all its various projects together contribute enough toward ÒGeneral OverheadÓ to pay for rent, heat, bookkeeping, phone answering, etc. A zero next to this item for phase two means we really did lose money. Ñ Keith Jordan ##A 12 48259 49 ##T FURTHER FURTHER The large volume of useful news in this disc is a result of our on-going publishing efforts. Beside this hi-density CD-ROM, we also publish a quarterly magazine, occasional books, a weekly newspaper column, and operate a 24-hour electronic meeting house, called the WELL (Whole Earth ÕLectronic Link). Our magazine, the Whole Earth Review, is 144 pages of unusual news, personal recommendations, unorthodox technical reports, and hard-to-find information. Much of what appears on your screen surfaced first in WER. Much of what will appear in future issues will come from people like you. We are a reader supported magazine: we carry no display advertising, and so are beholden to no one except our readers. We pay for anything we publish, ##A 12 48602 50 ##T FURTHER including suggestions. Subscriptions are $20 per year (four issues). Send to: Whole Earth Review, 27 Gate Five Road, Sausalito, CA 94965. Electronic mail can be sent to kk on the WELL, or Art Kleiner on Compuserve. The WELL is a regional teleconferencing system operating in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is an on-line community, accessible from anywhere in the country, that meets for discussion on more than 100 different topics ranging from drugs, politics and parenting to computers, music and philosophy. You need a modem to log on. Call 415/332-4335 to talk to a human for more information, or call 415/332-6106 to link your computer with ours. ##A 12 48777 51 ##T FURTHER Material that has run in our magazine has a good chance of making its way into our cumulative Catalogs or our weekly column in the San Francisco Chronicle. Our two newest books were/will be published by Harmony Books, a division of Crown Books in late 1988 and early 1989. The first is called ÒSIGNAL Ñ A Whole Earth Catalog: Communication Tools for the Information Age.Ó The second is a full book treatment of our best selling issue, ÒThe Fringes of Reason,Ó which dealt with strange beliefs and eccentric science. SIGNAL is $16.95 and FRINGES will be $14.95. Ñ Kevin Kelly ##A 12 63588 52 ##T HELP ##A 12 63823 53 ##T First Time Help ##A 12 26630 54 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC This section will explain how to get around in the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog. DonÕt be afraid to play around with the different buttons and explore Ñ thereÕs no way to harm the contents of the disc. If at any time you feel completely lost just click on the WHOLE EARTH button and you will be returned to the TABLE OF CONTENTS at the beginning of the disc. Think of it as your escape hatch. ##A 12 3715 55 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC The disc is organized in a hierarchy as shown by this pyramid. ##A 12 10157 56 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC There are four ways to get into the disc, all accessed through the main TABLE OF CONTENTS: ##A 12 10731 57 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC This is the Whole Earth TABLE OF CONTENTS. Each name on the card represents a general area of interest called a Domain. A click on the Domain name takes you to that Domain. ##A 12 11206 58 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC This is the DOMAIN card. Clicking on any Section title on the Domain card will take you to that Section. ##A 12 11713 59 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC This is a SECTION card. Clicking on any of the names takes you to a Cluster of articles related to the topic youÕve chosen. ##A 12 12137 60 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC This is a CLUSTER card. It lists individual Articles on a specific subject. Cluster cards also feature CROSS REFERENCES to related information in other Domains, Sections and Clusters. Clicking on any Article or Cross Reference will take you there. ##A 12 12583 61 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC What follows is a representative ARTICLE. Articles are at the bottom level of the pyramid, and they consist of four kinds of cards. This is a REVIEW card. Clicking the PAGE TURNER at the bottom of the page takes you to the next card of this Article . . . . ##A 12 13134 62 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC This is an ACCESS card. It is the part of the Article that provides ordering information. Click on the Page Turner to go to the next card in this Article . . . . ##A 12 13711 63 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC This is an EXCERPT card. Most, but not all articles have them. It will contain text excerpted from the reviewed item. Click on the Page Turner to go to the next card in this Article . . . . ##A 12 16809 64 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC This is a PICTURE card. Most, but not all articles will have one or more Picture cards. If this is the last card in an article, when the forward Page Turner is clicked you will be looped around to the first card of this Article. ##A 12 23551 65 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC After you have looked at an Article, you have several options as to where you may go. Clicking on the FORWARD button will take you to the next Article in this Cluster. ##A 12 14547 66 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC Clicking on the REVERSE button will take you to the previous Article. The Forward and Reverse Buttons work in the same manner on each level of the pyramid Ñ to the next Cluster when you are on a Cluster card, to the next Section when on a Section card, etc. ##A 12 26216 67 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC Clicking the CARD button takes you back up a level to the Cluster card which contains this Article. ##A 12 27874 68 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC Once back on the Cluster card you might choose another Article or Cross Reference, or as shown here you might click the Card button to move back up a level to the Section card. ##A 12 28246 69 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC Once back on the Section card you might choose another Cluster to browse or, as shown here, move back up another level to the Domain card. ##A 12 28888 70 ##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC Once back on the Domain card you can choose another Section to look at or, as shown here, click the WHOLE EARTH button and move back to the top of the pyramid, the Whole Earth Table of Contents. ##A 12 29354 71 ##T CONTENTS AND INDEX CONTENTS AND INDEX From the Table of Contents another way to get into the disc is to click on the picture next to a Domain name. This will take you directly to a card with an outline listing of the contents of that Domain. ##A 12 30166 72 ##T CONTENTS AND INDEX From this Domain Contents card you may go to another DomainÕs Contents by clicking one of the Domain Name buttons on the right of the card, or as shown here you may go directly to a Section, Cluster or Article by clicking its title. ##A 12 30495 73 ##T CONTENTS AND INDEX So here we are at the sample Article selected. If we were really in the Domain you could now read the Article, but for now weÕll click on the Whole Earth button to go back to the Table of Contents. ##A 12 31103 74 ##T CONTENTS AND INDEX The third way to get into the disc is through the Index. A click on the picture or word ÒIndex,Ó will take you directly to an alphabetic listing of the entire discÕs contents. ##A 12 31780 75 ##T CONTENTS AND INDEX Once in the Index, click on the letter corresponding to the alphabetic listing you want to see. These letters are shown on the right of the card. Use the scrolling field to find what you are looking for, click on the title and you will be taken to that item. ##A 12 32372 76 ##T CONTENTS AND INDEX If you were really in the Domain you could now peruse the Article that you had chosen, but instead weÕll click on the Whole Earth button to go back to the Table of Contents. ##A 12 33037 77 ##T QUICK SEARCH QUICK SEARCH The fourth way to get into the disc is by using the Quick Search feature from the Table of Contents. It is also an option available from the Pull-Down Menu which is explained later in this section. ##A 12 33789 78 ##T QUICK SEARCH Once in Quick Search, type in a word you are looking for and all occurrences of that word will be at your disposal. By clicking the Find First button you will be taken to the first occurrence of that word. ##A 12 34213 79 ##T QUICK SEARCH This card shows the word in context. The top of the card tells you the word you were searching for, the Domain of this particular occurrence, the total number of occurrences and the title of the Article in which this occurrence was found. To see the next occurrence of the word click the Go Next button. ##A 12 34320 80 ##T QUICK SEARCH From here you may go to the next occurrence, if there is any, or go directly to the card whose content is shown by clicking on the Go To That Card Button. ##A 12 34953 81 ##T QUICK SEARCH At the end of this help section there is a more detailed explanation of the Whole Earth Quick Search. ##A 12 40838 82 ##T PICTURES AND SOUND PICTURES AND SOUND There are over 4000 digitized pictures in the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog and over 500 Sound buttons. Here are a few things about these cards and buttons that you should know. ##A 12 41291 83 ##T PICTURES AND SOUND The picture card shows an illustration from the subject of the Article that you are looking at. If the caption is in the way of your viewing, then click anywhere on the picture to make it disappear. Click again to make it return. Try it here. ##A 12 41700 84 ##T PICTURES AND SOUND This is a full screen graphic. Minimum controls will be shown as well as a caption most of the time. The same clicking procedure will make these disappear and reappear along with the caption. After trying this click the page turner for information on sound. ##A 12 40971 85 ##T PICTURES AND SOUND The musical note at the bottom of the page is a Sound button. When it is clicked a sound sample of up to sixty-seconds will be heard. A click again on the button will interrupt the sound. If there is more than one button, then there is more than one sound sample to choose from. Now click on the button to hear the sound. ##A 12 51937 86 ##T THE PULL DOWN MENU THE PULL DOWN MENU All cards below the domain level have a PULL- DOWN MENU presenting you with many options. Click on ÒMenuÓ to see the Pull-Down Menu; then choose the function you need and release the mouse. (Any greyed-out functions arenÕt available for the particular card you have on screen.) ##A 12 15755 87 ##T THE PULL DOWN MENU The top area of the Pull-Down Menu locates your present position in the levels of the Catalog, in this case the ÒToolmakingÓ Cluster in the ÒToolsÓ Section in the ÒCRAFTÓ Domain. Choose any level to go there. ##A 12 3869 88 ##T THE PULL DOWN MENU ÒHelpÓ brings you an on-screen description of the card you are looking at, as well as access to more in-depth Whole Earth Help and Hyper- card Help. ##A 12 38461 89 ##T THE PULL DOWN MENU ÒContentsÓ takes you to an outline listing of the contents of your current Domain. ##A 12 38669 90 ##T THE PULL DOWN MENU ÒIndexÓ takes you to the alphabetical index of the entire disc. ##A 12 38984 91 ##T THE PULL DOWN MENU ÒPrint ArticleÓ will print all the cards of whichever Article you are currently viewing (this choice is greyed-out when you are not actually in an Article). ##A 12 39381 92 ##T THE PULL DOWN MENU ÒPrint Order FormÓ allows you to create and print an order for the product described on an Access card (the choice is greyed-out on all other types of cards). ##A 12 39634 93 ##T THE PULL DOWN MENU ÒQuick SearchÓ activates that function, just as youÕd expect. ##A 12 15234 94 ##T THE PULL DOWN MENU ÒQuitÓ will quit the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog and the Hypercard program. ##A 12 31654 95 ##T THE PULL DOWN MENU Congratulations! YouÕve now finished First Time Help. Now you can go back to the Section card and try moving around in the practice Articles, or click on the Whole Earth button to go back to the Whole Earth Table of Contents. ##A 12 17998 96 ##T MORE ABOUT QUICK SEARCH MORE ABOUT QUICK SEARCH With Quick Search you can find any single word in the entire text of the catalog and go to the particular card that contains it. To Use: Go to the Quick Search stack by clicking on ÒQuick SearchÓ from the Whole Earth Table of Contents, or selecting ÒQuick SearchÓ from the Pull-Down Menu. The Search Card: Type the word you want to find in the ÒSearch For:Ó window, then press the ÒFind FirstÓ button. If Quick Search finds your word, it then goes to the Occurrence Card of Quick Search and shows the first occurrence. ##A 12 18188 97 ##T MORE ABOUT QUICK SEARCH Index List: However, if Quick Search cannot find your word, it displays the fifteen words alphabetically closest to your choice in the word list. The number to the left of each word is the total number of occurrences of that word under the current Quick Search settings. You can also use the scroll bar to change the contents of the word list. Any time you see a word in the list that you would like to search for, just click on the word. Quick Search will center that word between the lines, and then show its first occurrence in the Occurrence Card. ##A 12 19305 98 ##T MORE ABOUT QUICK SEARCH The Occurrence Card: After Quick Search has found your word, it displays the text containing it with a Find box on your word. From there you can click on ÒGo to that CardÓ which will take you to that particular card in the Catalog. To examine further occurrences of your word, click on ÒGo Next,Ó or use the scroll bar beside it. To return to the Search Card, click the return arrow button in the lower left card. Quick Search Settings: By default, Quick Search is set to search the ÒFull TextÓ in the ÒWhole Catalog.Ó If the word you want is in the Catalog, you can find it this way. However, the total number of occurrences ##A 12 20148 99 ##T MORE ABOUT QUICK SEARCH for many words is quite large, and you will likely have to check many occurrences before finding the particular one you want. So if possible, it pays to limit your search to Titles or Author names, or to a particular Domain. Search By ÒTitleÓ or ÒAuthorÓ: You can limit your search to just the titles of all Articles or all author names by clicking the radio button for ÒTitleÓ or ÒAuthor.Ó Search By ÒSubjectÓ: Each article in the Catalog has two or three subject names associated with it. If you click the radio button ÒSubject,Ó Quick Search will use the search word as a subject name and find articles that correspond to that subject. Since the ##A 12 20771 100 ##T MORE ABOUT QUICK SEARCH subject names are somewhat arbitrary it is often easier to use the scroll bar to look through the index listing for subject names close to what you want. Search In: When ÒWhole CatalogÓ is selected, Quick Search can locate your word in any of the Catalog Domains. To limit your search to a specific Domain, just click on the ÒWhole CatalogÓ button next to ÒSearch InÓ and choose a Domain. - Jack Trainor ##A 12 65919 101 ##T Practice Navigating ##A 12 39834 102 ##T FIRST PRACTICE ARTICLE FIRST PRACTICE ARTICLE This is the first article within the practice Cluster. There are three cards here, all of which are Review cards. Use the Page Turners to move through them. Notice how it wraps around from card 1 to card 3 when going forward, and from card 3 to card 1 when going backward. ##A 12 40162 103 ##T FIRST PRACTICE ARTICLE While you are in this article, try out some other controls as well. Click on the CARD button to go back to the Cluster card, then come back here again. ##A 12 40264 104 ##T FIRST PRACTICE ARTICLE Try clicking the Menu as well. You can choose any of the choices available from the Menu. When you are done practicing in this article, click the Forward button to go to the second practice Article. (Actually, since there are only two articles in this cluster, both the Forward and Reverse buttons will get there because of wrap-around.) ##A 12 40507 105 ##T SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE This Article has four cards, one of each standard type. This is the Review card. ##A 12 79807 106 ##T SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE This is an Access card. It normally follows the Review card(s). It has information on how to order the book or product reviewed and usually a picture of it. ##A 12 79888 107 ##T SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE This is an Excerpt card. When Excerpt cards are present, they will usually follow the Access card(s). ##A 12 80329 108 ##T SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE This is a Picture card. Picture cards usually follow the Access information, and may be interleaved with Excerpt cards. Click away from this caption to make is disappear. Click again to bring it back.