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18-511: The last published hard copy issue of the magazine was the Winter 2002 issue. The next issue (Spring 2003) was planned but never published in hard copy format. Bruce Sterling attempted to solicit funds for this issue by writing that "friends at Whole Earth Magazine have experienced a funding crunch so severe that the Spring 2003 special issue (#111) on Technological Singularity, edited by Alex Steffen of

36-628: A chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky . From April 2009 through May 2009, he was an editor at Cool Tools . From October 2003 to May 2020 Sterling blogged at "Beyond the Beyond" , which was hosted by Wired until the COVID-19 pandemic led Condé Nast to cut back because of an advertising slump. He also contributed to other print and online platforms, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction . He has been

54-574: A fondness for Bollywood films. In 1976, he graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in journalism. In 1978, he was the Dungeon Master for a Dungeons & Dragons game whose players included Warren Spector , who cited Sterling's game as a major inspiration for the game design of Deus Ex . In 2003, he was appointed professor at the European Graduate School where he

72-528: A ship sailing on the ocean of dust at the bottom and hunting creatures called dustwhales. It is partially a science-fictional pastiche of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville . In the early 1980s, Sterling wrote a series of stories set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe : the Solar System is colonized , with two major warring factions. The Mechanists use a great deal of computer-based mechanical technologies;

90-595: Is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre. Sterling's first science-fiction story, "Man-Made Self", was sold in 1976. He is the author of science-fiction novels, including Schismatrix (1985), Islands in the Net (1988), and Heavy Weather (1994). In 1992, he published his first non-fiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on

108-644: Is teaching summer intensive courses on media and design. In 2005, he became "visionary in residence" at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California . He lived in Belgrade with Serbian author and film-maker Jasmina Tešanović for several years, and married her in 2005. In September 2007 he moved to Turin , Italy. Both Sterling and artist and musician Florian-Ayala Fauna are sponsors for V. Vale 's RE/Search newsletter. Heavy Weather (Sterling novel) Too Many Requests If you report this error to

126-517: Is titled The Last CoEvolution Quarterly . The cover also states, "Next issue is 'Whole Earth Review': livelier snake, new skin". In January 1985, issue #44 was titled Whole Earth Review: Tools and Ideas for the Computer Age . The cover also reads "The continuation of CoEvolution Quarterly and Whole Earth Software Review ". In an article titled "Whole Earth Software Catalog Version 1.1", Stewart Brand states that there are three intended audiences for

144-702: The Viridian curia, hasn't been printed and distributed. Whole Earth is soliciting donations to get the issue printed, and has put some of the content online". Eventually, elements of the 2003 issue appeared only in digital format on the Whole Earth website. Fred Turner discusses the creation of the Whole Earth Review in From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and

162-473: The Electronic Frontier . He has been interviewed for documentaries such as Freedom Downtime , TechnoCalyps and Traceroute . Sterling is one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction, along with William Gibson , Rudy Rucker , John Shirley , Lewis Shiner , and Pat Cadigan . In addition, he is one of the subgenre's chief ideological promulgators. This has earned him

180-511: The Rise of Digital Utopianism . Turner notes that in 1983, The Whole Earth Software Catalog was proposed by John Brockman as a magazine which "would do for computing what the original [ Whole Earth Catalog ] had done for the counterculture: identify and recommend the best tools as they emerged". The first issue was released in the Fall of 1984. The Whole Earth Software Catalog was a business failure , and

198-487: The Shapers do genetic engineering on a massive scale. The situation is complicated by the eventual contact with alien civilizations ; humanity eventually splits into many subspecies, with the implication that some of these vanish from the galaxy, reminiscent of the singularity in the works of Vernor Vinge . The Shaper/Mechanist stories can be found in the collections Crystal Express and Schismatrix Plus , which contains

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216-464: The community as a whole), and the related " tragedy of the commons ". 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. Whole Earth editors Kevin Kelly and Howard Rheingold both went on to edit other magazines. Bruce Sterling Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954)

234-560: The instigator of three projects which can be found on the Web: Sterling has coined various neologisms to describe things that he believes will be common in the future, especially items which already exist in limited numbers. Sterling's novels include: In the beginning of his childhood he lived in Galveston, Texas until his family moved to India. Sterling spent several years in India and has

252-586: The new Whole Earth Review : a) The audience of The Whole Earth Software Catalog , b) The audience of The Whole Earth Software Review and c) The audience of CoEvolution Quarterly . The office of Whole Earth Review was next door to The WELL , another project that Stewart Brand and associates co-founded. Whole Earth had a special role in promoting alternative technology or appropriate technology . In deciding to publish full-length articles on specific topics in natural sciences, invention, arts, etc., Whole Earth (like its predecessor, CoEvolution Quarterly )

270-565: The nickname "Chairman Bruce". He was also one of the first organizers of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop , and is a frequent attendee at the Sycamore Hill Writer's Workshop . He won Hugo Awards for his novelettes " Bicycle Repairman " (1996) and " Taklamakan " (1998). His first novel, Involution Ocean (1977), features the world Nullaqua where all the atmosphere is contained in a single, miles-deep crater . The story concerns

288-519: The novel Schismatrix and all of the stories set in the Shaper/Mechanist universe. Alastair Reynolds identified Schismatrix and the other Shaper/Mechanist stories as one of the greatest influences on his own work. In the 1980s, Sterling edited the science fiction critical fanzine Cheap Truth under the alias of Vincent Omniaveritas. He wrote a column called Catscan for the now-defunct science fiction critical magazine SF Eye . He contributed

306-413: Was a journal aimed primarily at the educated layperson. The industrial designer and educator J. Baldwin served as the technology editor. Tool and book reviews were in abundance, and ecological and technology topics were interspersed with articles treating social and community subjects. One of the journal's recurring themes was "the commons" (a thing, institution or geographic space of, or having to do with,

324-428: Was only published twice, with only three of The Whole Earth Software Review supplements published . At the same time, another Brand publication, CoEvolution Quarterly evolved out of the original Whole Earth Supplement in 1974. In 1985, Brand merged CoEvolution Quarterly with The Whole Earth Software Review to create the Whole Earth Review . This is also indicated in the issues themselves. Fall 1984, issue #43

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