biography
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| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Editor and writer, born in Rockford, Illinois, USA. He studied at Stanford, and became associated with the Merry Pranksters, a west-coast group of bohemian writers and intellectuals. He then became the founding editor of the counterculture The Whole Earth Catalogue series (1968–71), and later editor-in-chief of The Whole Earth Software Catalogue (1983–5). He became a research scientist at the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, and published an account of its work the following year. |
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