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
decision widely
I'd like to see RAD DECISION widely read.
cities determine dialogue nature next plays
What the world has now are new cities with young populations and old cities with old populations. How the dialogue between them plays out will determine much of the nature of the next half-century.
technology over-you ifs
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
fighting hands two
On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.
waste coke energy
If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.
california southern desert
Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.
night timeless periods
Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.
influence
We can influence the future but not see it.
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.
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.
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.