Whole Earth Review

Their website states
:Issues 1 - 43 are CoEvolution Quarterly
:Issues 44 -89 are Whole Earth Review
:Issues 90 and following are Whole Earth Magazine

CoEvolution Quarterly was founded by gadfly editor Stewart Brand in 1974, with proceeds from The Whole Earth Catalog. Brand (trained as a biologist,artist, and designer) also founded the Point Foundation, and is now active in the Global Business Network.

Whole Earth Review's motto was Access to tools and ideas (as was the motto of the Catalog), with "tools" being very broadly defined, so as to include maps, books, software, and other extensions of the mind. The Whole Earth Catalog was created to serve the practical needs of communes in California, Oregon, and the American Southwest, in addition to independent designers, inventors, do-it-yourselfers, and youthful experimenters of all sorts. CoEvolution Quarterly was a 1974 off-shoot periodical publication of the Catalog, and was later renamed Whole Earth Review (1985). Besides having a social focus and interest in persomnal computing, it was always at the forefront of technological innovation, being the first to publish articles about speculations on space colonization and molecular nanotechnology. In 1985, Whole Earth also established the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (also known as "The WELL"), one of the pioneering online communities on the internet.

Whole Earth editors Kevin Kelly and Howard Rheingold both went on to become influential figures in technology. Stewart Brand and the later editors invited reviews of books and "tools" from experts in specific fields, to be approached as though they were writing a letter to a friend. In this, he adopted a technique which editor Byron Dobell had suggested to Tom Wolfe, early in the latter’s career, a method which had started a whole literary genre called “the new journalism” known for its intimacy and impact.

Whole Earth was one of the journals that, in effect, bridged the gap of what has been called the two cultures. This was an inheritence from the Whole Earth Catalog, which had, for instance, run a review of Gerald Heard's work.

Whole Earth is now defunct, according to Utne Reader. Whole Earth did a good job of taking their last issue (Spring, 2003, edited by Alex Steffen), and
putting it into Portable Document Format.

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