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Stewart Brand
We are as gods, so we might aswell get good at it
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.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Nobody can save the world, but any of us can help set in motion a self-saving world—if we are willing to engage the processes of centuries, because that is where the real power is.
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
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.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
We want to ensure our own continuity by blending in with Earth’s continuity
-Stuart Brand, Pace Layers issue 1
Brian Eno observes, “I had a large house once. Effectively it had infinite cheap storage. I’ve never been so miserable as when I found myself living among the unselected heaps of crap that I’d accumulated. I favor savage selection, but everyone making their own. That way you get a myriad of perspectives instead of one and instead of an undifferenti
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