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An inspiration engine for ideas
In March 2008, Stewart Brand, the famous Merry Prankster and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, stepped out of the Hawaiian jungle and gave me a cryptic recommendation before fading back into the shadows:
Daniel Suarez • Daemon
33 life tips/Secret Museum of Mankind/Small egg cooker
Stewart Brand has described his mystic experience on the roof in various publications. The most complete account is in Michael Katz et al., eds., Earth’s Answer: Explorations of Planetary Culture at the Lindisfarne Conferences (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), 184–88.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
We are as gods, so we might aswell get good at it
Together with Danny Hillis, Brand chairs the board of the Long Now Foundation, an organization devoted to returning us to thinking in generational timescales.
Alex Evans • The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough
“More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.”
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“We are the first generation that influences global climate, and the last generation to escape the consequences.”