Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 16:28:58 pst
From: well!tomwhite@APPLE.COM(Tom White)
Subject: File 5--Re: Whole Earth Review Questions Technology

For Immediate Release:  December 16,1991
CONTACT:  Tom White (415) 332-1716: E-mail:tomwhite@well.sf.ca.us

WHOLE EARTH REVIEW to Readers:
Question Technology (while we still have the chance)

Sausalito, CA -- The Winter 1991 issue of WHOLE EARTH REVIEW, the
"Access to Tools" quarterly supplement to the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG,
questions the political, economic, social and physical effects
technology has on our lives.  WHOLE EARTH REVIEW also questions its
fundamental assumption that providing
access to tools is a good and noble enterprise.

Is technological innovation invariably beneficial?  Do we control
new technologies or do they control us?  Will books and libraries
become obsolete?  These are some of the questions that authors in this
special issue attempt to answer.  Editor-in-Chief Howard Rheingold
writes in the introduction: "Perhaps our readers will be inspired to
create new tools for thinking about tools."

Among the authors showcased are Jerry Mander, whose book "In
the Absence of the Sacred" is excerpted at length in the lead article;
Howard Levine, former director of the National Science Foundation's
Public Understanding of Science Program; Langdon Winner, a political
theorist and author; Patricia Glass Schuman, president of the American
Library Association and of Neal-Schuman Publishers; Linda Garcia, a
project director and senior analyst at the Office of Technology
Assessment; Gary T. Marx; Ivan Illich; Amory and Hunter Lovins of the
Rocky Mountain Institute.

For the past two decades WHOLE EARTH REVIEW has provided its
readers "access to tools" -- practical information about technologies
ranging from manual post-hole diggers to virtual-computer systems.
Subscription price is $27 for four issues, add $6 foreign.  No advertising
accepted.  On newsstands and bookstore magazine shelves now.

Copyright 1991, POINT.  Permission granted to redistribute freely.
Whole Earth Review, PO Box 38, Sausalito, CA 94966

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