If you want to maintain independence in the era of large institutions and think fresh thoughts in the age of mass media, you are going to need good tools. Whole Earth is a network of experts who find, evaluate, and share tools and ideas. Over the past twenty-five years, we have coevolved a worldwide community of information hunters and gatherers. This community now focuses upon what we need to know to build our own practical utopias in the 1990s and beyond. Watersheds are still important.
Ancient forests are still important.
Technology policies and cheap telecommunication software are important too, these days. Some people who are trying to take the world in their hands are out in the rainforests. Others are in cyberspace. Here are the field reports, recommendations, and reviews from the ethnobotanists in the Amazon and the cybernauts of the Internet. Book publishing, radio and television production, and music distribution used to require buildings full of heavy machinery.