| POINT Foundation | |
| Location City: | San Francisco, California |
| Location Country: | United States of America |
The POINT Foundation was a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco and founded by Stewart Brand and Dick Raymond.[1] POINT was established in 1971, for the role of distributing funds deriving from profits of the Whole Earth Catalogs to innovative and promising ventures.[1]
The Whole Earth Catalog (WEC), was an American magazine and product catalog.[2]
The foundation's board members were united by concern for the natural environment. Besides Brand and Raymond, board members included computer engineer Bill English, who became the co-inventor of the computer mouse, and Huey Johnson, former western-regional director of the Nature Conservancy.[1]
POINT took over publication of the WEC from its original publisher, the Portola Institute, by 1980, when the publication had swelled to a 452-page edition. As well, the foundation published a number of mostly periodical offshoots of the WEC.[1] POINT was also a co-owner of an early online discussion platform titled co-owner of The WELL.[3]
. Fred Turner (author) . From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism . Chicago . Univ. of Chicago Press . 2006 . 0-226-81741-5 . 294.