(2008-09-15) Whole Earth Oral History

An oral history of the Whole Earth Catalog.

• Howard Rheingold: Brand united do-it-yourself (DIY) with new utopian society. He really believed that given the right tools, any change is possible.

• Stewart Brand: The WEC is extinct. But right now on my belt I've got a really great Nikon monocular that can read a bug's expression from 4 feet away; a sheaf knife, in case I need to lop off a weed in the garden; my favorite Swiss Army knife (the long kind); my Treo, a descendant of the personal computer; and a set of DIY bifocals. The catalog's slogan was "Access to Tools," and these are some pretty Cool Tool-s.