Know Your /'s
summary
Claims that Silicon Valley’s culture comes from 1960s communal technologists and the Whole Earth Catalog, documents concrete links: the Whole Earth Catalog (1968–74) as an empowerment manual, the Merry Pranksters and LSD-era communes as social experiments, Alan Kay and Xerox-era GUI work as technical lineage, and the online community The WELL (active since 1985) as proto-social software. Evidence includes Stanford–defense ties, commercialization that funds apps like “Yo”, and the critique that copying Silicon Roundabout misses local context.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 1:14History and Culture
- 5:04Stuart Brandt
- 11:31Whole Earth Catalog
- 13:28The Whole Earth Catalog
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