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Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
he first figuratively and then literally set out to “play God,” initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.
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Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago
He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.
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The arc of his life helped to create a very particular California sensibility, a state of mind that has gone on to spread throughout the entire world.
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Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
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Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago
He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.
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Jonathan Simcoe added 9mo ago
People who met him then described him as socially awkward, overly earnest, and cerebral.
from Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff
Jonathan Simcoe added 9mo ago
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
from Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff
Jonathan Simcoe added 9mo ago
he first figuratively and then literally set out to “play God,” initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.
from Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff
Jonathan Simcoe added 9mo ago
Steve Jobs fastened onto the Brand approach in recounting his own life in his influential 2005 Stanford commencement address. He found inspiration in the closing page of Brand’s Whole Earth Epilog. It captured the sensibility that emerged on the western edge of the continent during the sixties. The back cover of the 1974 edition of the publication
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