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.
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.
technology garden guilt
We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!