Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand
Stewart Brandis an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations, including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the author of several books, most recently Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth14 December 1938
CountryUnited States of America
world problem absence
The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.
influence
We can influence the future but not see it.
bacteria planets ifs
If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.
want watches culture
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.
computer humans convenient
Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.
internet free-speech
Redefine the possible.
motivation inspiration squares
[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.
technology law four
The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.
want information
Information wants to be free.
sight labyrinth kind
There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.
information cases
You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.
cities humanity unemployment
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
good-friend hard-times survival
In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.
unhappy way
How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?