Sublime

Although he was largely an observer of the technical community that created Silicon Valley, his various ideas and crusades around the Whole Earth Catalog, which he created in the fall of 1968, foreshadow and resonate with the techno-utopian culture that the Valley spawned.

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.

The Whole Earth Catalog was American artist-activist Stewart Brand’s hypersaturated guide to tools necessary for self-sustainable communities. Brand hoped the catalog’s pages would develop the “power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is