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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

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ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES

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• WHOLE EARTH
 • INTRODUCTION
  • ABOUT THE DISC
   • Genesis and Purpose

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