The story is by Steward Brand[1], who, besides bringing the Whole Earth Catalog into existence, help Douglas Engelbart present the Mother Of All Demos[2] - the demo that gave us the mouse, hypertext, and many other things that Xerox PARC (and then MacOS and Windows) emulated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog
The story is by Steward Brand[1], who, besides bringing the Whole Earth Catalog into existence, help Douglas Engelbart present the Mother Of All Demos[2] - the demo that gave us the mouse, hypertext, and many other things that Xerox PARC (and then MacOS and Windows) emulated.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos