'"Arguments for a Moratorium on the Construction of a Community Utility," by Lawrence I. Press in Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Vol. 17 #12, from: Dept. of Quantitative Business Analysis School of Business Administration UCLA Los Angeles, Ca. 90007 CIU has received a good deal of criticism by noted social analysts like Paul Goodman, who claim that the CIU development should be (Press's paraphrase) "prudent, ecological, decentralized." II Cybernetic Frontiers-1974, Stewart Brand, Random House. Bookworks 1409 Fifth Street Berkeley, Ca. 94710 Two pieces by the Whole Earth Catalog editor: "Both Sides of a Necessary Paradox," an interview with Gregory Bateson, and "Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums." Cybernetics, by Norbert Wiener, 1946. The MIT Press SO Ames St. Cambridge, Mass. Norbert Wiener's theory uncovers possibilities for artificial intelligence. Embodiments ofMind, by WarrenS. McCulloch, 196S. The MIT Press SO Ames Street Cambridge, Mass. 02139 Sublime theorizing on nerve nets of the mind. The Encyclopedia of Associations, 1975 Margaret Fisk, Editor Gale Research Company Book Tower Detroit, Michigan 48226 A guide to national and international organizations, about 1,200 pp. Everything from "New England Knitted Outerwear Association" to "United States Ski Writers Association." Futures Conditional, Vol. 3 #2 P.O. Box S296 Spokane,Wn.9920S Robert Stilges, Ed. A publication of the N.W. Regional Foundation, a non-profit educational corporation committed to encouraging people to take a more active and responsible role in planning for the future. Issue on communications deals with video as an information tool, the computer and the community, community memory experiments, speculation on communications and the future. "Energy & Information" Scientific American 41S Madison Avenue New York, N.Y. 10017 The age of telecommunication will grow out of the age of transportation, in which the world is made smaller by efficient transportation. In the future, energy can be conserved by allowing telecommunications to transmit messages which might otherwise need to be transported by expensive means. "How to do a Whole Earth Catalog," Stewart Brand. The Last Whole Earth Catalog S88 Santa Cruz Ave. Menlo Park, Ca. 94025 A look inside the workings of the editor and the catalog. "Manual for Student Development of a School Environmental Information Oearinghouse." 1972, Barbara Peckorsky and David Archbald. E1 Systems P.O. Bnx 3304 Madison, Wise. 53704 Networking package for the Total Environment-Total Community Program. The Morning of the Magicians, by Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier. Avon Books The Hearst Corporation 9S9 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019 An intense, encyclopedic discussion of secret networks of information-from the alchemists to the Nazis. New World Communications P.O. Box E MIT Branch Cambridge, Mass. 02139 Broadsheet format associated with New Community Projects of Boston. Serves as an alternative communications network in the form of classifieds, display ads, flyers. People to People Index The Evergreen State College Library Olympia, Wn. 98S05 An important link between the university and community resources. A reference card available at and through the library was filled out by people with experiences and resources to share. The format was very simple: name, address, phone, interest area, self rating (1 2 3 4 S 6 7, Beginning Lively Interest to Crackerjack). The People's Yellow Pages, 1971. Vocations for Social Change 3S1 Broadway Cambridge, Mass. 02139 In developing an alternative job counseling program, Vocations for Social Page 19 Change found themselves necessarily concerned with-and dependent uponthe resources of the community. People's Yellow Pages was a model for similar projects across the country. Planning Community Information Utilities, H. Sackman and B.W. Boehm HFIPS Press Montvale, N.J. The CIU proposal takes community memory projects one step further by institutionalization in the form of a public utility. Imagine-a commission of community information utilities relating people-information needs to government and adding to the economic infrastructure distribution networks analogous to loads, telephone and power networks. Scientific American, Sept., 1966. Scientific American Inc. 41S Madison Avenue ·New York, N.Y. 10017 Issue devoted to information largely as it is processed by computers for education, research and industry. Somewhere Else. 1973. The Center for Curriculum Design The Swallow Press, Inc. 1139 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago, Ill. 6060S "A catalog of places to learn for those who can't bring themselves to go to college, for those who shouldn't go to college go to college or those who don't want to go to college." Synergy People's Pages, 1973. Project Synergy P.O. Box AH Stanford, Ca. 9430S Directory growing out of "Synergy: A Working Conference on Transitions and Social Change" (Stanford, 1973) and "A Spring Festival of Alternatives." Project Synergy, an alternative information resource collective who put together this people-to-people accessing directory, published computer printouts to try to deal with the updating problem. The Universal Traveler, Don Koberg and Jim Bagnell, 1972. Willison Kaufmann, Inc. One First Street Los Altos, Ca. 94022 Especially a "Communications Checklist." This reminded me of something Carol Costello said when she visited the EEC in December-about how getting the right information to the right person in the right way is part of establishing a relationship; notions of personal regard and consideration prevail.
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