fill the niche better than we did. Well, they didn’t. 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Whole Earth Catalog won the National Book Award in 1972 and continued to sell 5,000 copies a week with increasingly outdated information.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 “last” 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 “The Never Piss Against The Wind Newsletter,” or perhaps “Making Circuit.” I did have a formula in mind: we would print long technical pieces on whatever interested us — the opposite of the predigested pap in,
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ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES