When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960''''s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
當我年輕的時候, 有一本叫做“整個地球的目錄”振聾發聵的雜誌，它是我們那一代人的聖經之一。它是一個叫Stewart Brand的家夥在離這裏不遠的Menlo Park書寫的, 他象詩一般神奇地將這本書帶到了這個世界。那是六十年代後期, 在個人電腦出現之前, 所以這本書全部是用打字機,、剪刀還有偏光鏡製造的。有點像用軟皮包裝的google, 在google出現三十五年之前：這是理想主義的， 其中有許多靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: \"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.\" It was their far