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
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.
fashion drama technology
Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly
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!
technology issues stuff
This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues.
cutting technology artist
For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.
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.
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.
almost bent books certain half
It's almost certain that half of the books that bent my young mind, I got from there.
civilization local pillar
I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.
basically happen money
He floated the idea -- he put up the money and the machine. Then he basically let what would happen happen.
best electricity far nuclear percent russian taking terms tool turning
In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.
thinking long understanding
The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.
style fool students
Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student