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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.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Local, human-scale economies and food systems that honor the “triple bottom line”: people, planet, and profits.
Bill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
He regularly invited top computer scientists to his office to explain emerging trends in hardware and software. He had three home computers. He was typing a future bestseller, Earth in the Balance, on an early laptop. He went to computer-industry conferences, wrote articles for Scientific American, and fluently spoke the language of VLSI and AI, RA
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The new hires took advantage of Xerox’s abundant resources and loose oversight to creatively interpret Goldman’s definition of “data processing technology,” pursuing projects inspired by Doug Engelbart’s ideas about augmented intelligence and by hacker culture more generally. Engelbart’s SRI operation had drifted after the great demo—investors coul
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