The invention of Google before Google — a radical mail-order ‘Catalog’

Stewart Brand’s “Whole Earth Catalog” engendered a counterculture that’s long gone, but the catalog’s founding principle — access to tools — inspires today’s Information Age.
— Read on www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-markoff-stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog-20180328-story.html