NY Times interview with Kevin Kelly, author of modern version of the Whole Earth Catalog
“These are all recommendations of tools, in the broadest sense, of things that are helpful and practical for doing things yourself, for learning things yourself or as a small group. They are self-empowerment tools. While there are more than a thousand tools in the book, I’m not suggesting that you buy any of them. I think you should just know about them. This is a book of ideas. It’s a book of possibilities.”
“This is all user-generated content from the cool tools website that have been running for 10 years. These are all positive recommendations, we only deal with good stuff, we don’t waste our time with things that don’t work.”
“You can take a picture with your mobile phone, where you hover over the (QR) code, and then it takes you right to an Amazon page to order the tool. It’s as close as we could get in print to the web where you can click and order something. It remains to be seen if anyone actually uses it.”
photo credit Amazon
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